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            The devil was always challenging St. Peter to a game of baseball, but St. Peter never took him up.  Finally, the Dodgers, the Giants, and the Yanks all went to heaven.  So naturally St. Peter called up the Devil.

            “Now I’ll play you that game of baseball,” he said.

            “You’ll lose,” said the devil.  “You’ll lose.”

            “Oh, yeah?” replied St. Peter.  “Right now I’ve got the greatest collection of baseball players you ever saw.”

            “You’ll lose,” said the devil.  “You’ll lose.”

“What makes you so sure we’ll lose?”  “Because,” laughed the devil, “we’ve got all

the umpires down here.”

Braude’s Handbook of Stories, Jacob M. Braude, page355