Show Up & Clock-In

I recall my father missing work on three occasions: (1) age 26, he was drafted into the US Army to serve in WWII (2) age 41, he had major back surgery and (3) age 54, he had a major heart attack.
My wife's father missed work one time at age 54, he was taken to the hospital and died with loss of blood from a bleeding stomach ulcer.

I grew up in a time period when folks simply did NOT miss work easily. I even recall the 1940 & 1950's sports teams seemed to have the same players penciled in the staring lineups day after day, game after game. Those baseball players back then played Day and night games, double-headers and traveled by train and bus from city to city. You did not hear of players being on the disabled list very often. You memorized the lineup because it was always the same...Del Rice (catcher), Nippy Jones (first base), Red Schoendient (second), Whitey Kurowski (third), Marty Marion (SS), and outfielders Musial, Moore and Slaughter. Go the Keil Auditorium in the 1950's to see the Hawks vs. Celtics and it was Russell, Cousy, Sharman, Heinshon and Loscutoff facing the Hawks lineup of Pettit, Hagen, Hannum, Martin and Macauley.

These days, my St. Louis Cardinals always have three or four players disabled and in-spite of their million dollar contracts, they travel first class airlines, stay in the finest hotels and have smorgasbord  in their plush clubhouse and yet those young well honed athletic men often need a day of rest so the 162- work days won't  physically break them down. Please don't tell me how hard they train. They are playing a game, which they have played since they were eight years old.

Aside from professional golfers, tennis players, swimmers and race car drivers, MLB players are the laziest and generally speaking, most conceited sport prima donnas.
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