
Mine Rescue, by Fletcher Martin, 1939. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.
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In 1982 John Candelaria, a pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates, was given $238 in per diem meal money while on a bus to Wrigley Field from the team’s hotel in Chicago. Candelaria threw his cash out the bus window, a few dollars per toss, much to the surprise of those on the street. “It just seemed like the thing to do,” Candelaria told a reporter.
The friend of all humanity is no friend to me.
—Molière, 1666