Billy Martin shoots a cow
snopes
In article <1991May1.1...@morrow.stanford.edu>,
GC....@forsythe.stanford.edu (Sullivan) writes...
>Either this is an old story that Mantle/Martin 'borrowed' or someone
>made up about them, or the story has travelled and become a generic
>joke. I read this most recently when Billy Martin died in a car
>accident. There's no big deal about a funny story travelling about
>but my newly budding 'UL Alert' antennae turn when a story about
>two specific famous people becomes a story about 'just a couple
>guys'.
This is an old story covered in one of Brunvand's books (including the
"adoption" of it by Billy Martin). Martin most likely heard the story, found
it funny, and decided to claim it happened to him while hunting with
Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford.
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Sullivan
> While out Looking For A Place To Hunt: (supposedly true)
>
> A carload of hunters, looking for a place to hunt, pulled into
> a farmers yard. The driver went up to the farmhouse to ask permission
> to hunt. The old farmer said, "Sure you can hunt, but would you
> do me a favor? That old mule standing over there is 20 years old
> and sick with cancer, but I don't have the heart to kill her. Would
> you do it for me?" The hunter said, "Sure," and headed for the car.
>
> While walking back, however, he decided to pull a trick on his
> hunting buddies. He got into the car and when they asked if the
> farmer had said OK, he said "No, we can't hunt here, but I'm going
> to teach that old cuss a lesson." With that, he rolled down his
> window, stuck his gun out and blasted the mule. As he exclaimed,
> "There, that will teach him!" a second shot rang out from the
> passenger side. And, one of his hunting buddies shouted, "I got
> the cow!"
>
> Copied from the Brownells Gunsmiths Newsletter who credits Larry
> Ahlman, Ahlman's, Rt. 1, Box 20, Morristown, MN 55052.
This is a story I read on two occasions about the friendship of
Billy Martin and Mickey Mantle. The farm is in Texas, Mantle is the
one who talks the the farmer who is either related, or a good
friend. Martin shoots the cow.
Either this is an old story that Mantle/Martin 'borrowed' or someone
made up about them, or the story has travelled and become a generic
joke. I read this most recently when Billy Martin died in a car
accident. There's no big deal about a funny story travelling about
but my newly budding 'UL Alert' antennae turn when a story about
two specific famous people becomes a story about 'just a couple
guys'.
Mike