It’s Spring, Time for Baseball.

I love comedy. I really do. Comedy duo Bud Abbott and Lou Costello are classic comedians from the early days of movies. They made many, many movies and to this day, they still make me laugh. But, nothing they did was funnier than their “Who’s On First” sketch. In the sketch, Abbott plays a baseball team manager and Costello is asking him the names of the players on the team. The players, it seems, these days have very peculiar names. Let’s watch:

I know it’s very fast. There is a transcript of the skit, although the beginning is a bit different, found Here at the Baseball Almanac.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

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