Bill Werber, who just turned 100, is old enough to get pissed off at Johnny Damon's hair, and the fact that women sing the national anthem. But, clearly, he's an old manpossibly the oldest living professional baseball playerso his curmudgeonly side manages to come off as charming. At least it does in his recent interviews which, given that he has just passed the century mark, have been numerous.
Werber has also recounted his life in a book entitled, appropriately enough, Memories of a Ballplayer, which was published in 2000 by the Society for American Baseball Research. Seeing as Werber is likely not long for this world, perhaps in the future reporters can just pick up the book instead of occupying the centenarian's time. Then again, he does seem to enjoy talking about it.
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