Practicing their penmanship

Obviously feeling just fine after beating the White Sox 9-1 in a series finale 44 years ago today, the New York Yankees board their team bus outside Chicago’s Comiskey Park and, well, invite a young lady to do the same.

Oh, what possibly could go wrong here?

Yes, the young lady does indeed board the bus, but only with the best of intentions.

Seems she just wants to get some autographs, which the players are only too happy to give, especially since she wants the autographs on her bare backside.

Yankees manager Billy Martin later claims to know nothing of the hijinks, which lead to an investigation by commissioner and noted party killer Bowie Kuhn, as well as a predictable tirade from Yankees image-obsessed owner George Steinbrenner.

“By the time I got to the bus, Bill Kane, our traveling secretary, had kicked her off,” Martin tells The New York Times.

“I didn’t invite her on the bus. My rules are no women on the bus. I don’t make exceptions for anyone. In Seattle, I asked one of the (team’s minority) owners’ wives to get off.”

Alas, that lady in Seattle probably did not even get an autograph for her troubles. An unbearable thought.