# Who shoulda stood in bed? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 14, 2004, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-shoulda-stood-in-bed/239987 "2004-04-14T16:15:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-shoulda-stood-in-bed/239987/1 "2004-04-14T16:15:40Z")
Who was famously quoted as saying, “I shoulda stood in bed”? I believe this was after a calamatous baseball loss, but it _wasn’t_ Yogi Berra. Probably in the 30’s or 40’s, possibly 50’s. I heard a reference to this on my public radio station recently, within the last month. It may be that he was mentioned because he died recently. The same guy was widely known for another quote which I can’t remember, which may have been related to a boxing match. The radio show may possibly have been Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac but I’m not sure. A Google search uncovers tons of hits but they are secondary quotes, nobody seems to direct quote the original guy. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-shoulda-stood-in-bed/239987/2 "2004-04-14T16:48:30Z")
It was Joe Jacobs, who said it in the presence of famed baseball writer Shirley Povich (yes, Maury’s father). [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/longterm/general/povich/launch/history.htm](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/longterm/general/povich/launch/history.htm) > [@](#): > > And how many can truthfully say they actually heard a to-be-famous phrase actually enter the language? I did. This was during the 1934 World Series on a cold, blustery day in Detroit. Standing behind me in the upstairs press box was Joe Jacobs, a Damon Runyon character and manager of boxer Max Schmeling. He didn’t like baseball much, but the World Series was a place to be seen. Now he was stomping his feet in the chill and drawing his topcoat tighter about him, shivering and unhappy. That’s when he muttered to me and my press-box neighbor Paul Gallico, “I shoulda stood in bed.” ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-shoulda-stood-in-bed/239987/3 "2004-04-14T18:25:47Z")
Thank you, **Exapno Mapcase.** I had heard Bugs Bunny say it in the 1950’s, and I suspected he was quoting somebody.