It's like a baseball team investing more in the health of the superstar than they do in a
bench jockey or minor leaguer."
LETTERS IN THE EDITOR'S MAILBAG
If BOTH clubs get real and agree a sensible fee he won't be just another
bench jockey at Parkhead.
Gordon Waddell: DON'T TAG PAUL SUB STANDARD; Hartley deserves move
They used to have
bench jockeys and they'd call you all kind of names, but usually not to your face.
Baseball's Foul Past Returns
If the ballplayers weren't doing it, the fans were." Greenberg's teammate Birdie Tebbetts states, "Hank consistently took more abuse from
bench jockeys than anybody I've ever known ...
The history of Jews and Baseball
The nastiest of pitchers, Cairo said, "give you no clues whatsoever." In which case the hitter and
bench jockeys will turn their attention to the catcher, who would be positioned with feet wider to accept the sinking Kevin Brown fastball for which he'd just signaled.
Body of evidence: some hitters say they can identify what a pitcher is throwing by noticing movements in the wrist, finger or glove or through facial expressions
Whether for lack of Jews or from upper-class restraint, antisemitic epithets were uttered much less frequently and less loudly at tennis and golf matches than at boxing bouts or by baseball
bench jockeys. Thus an Anti-Defamation League survey of 1949 found no discrimination in baseball, football, basketball, boxing, and bowling, but noted antisemitic taunts from fans at boxing matches.
Antisemitism in American Athletics