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This trade card as it reads on the
left, is from "Bill Zuber's Dugout
Restaurant Homestead, Iowa" A like
version was also produced with a
postcard back but without the printing on
the front left. Zuber is pictured
in his Yankee uniform with a facsimile
autograph with salutations: "Good
Hitting Bill Zuber" The back of the trade
card features:
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"The Ten Commandments
of Baseball" By Joe McCarthy |
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- Nobody ever
became a ballplayer by
walking after a ball.
- You will never become a
.300 hitter unless you take
the bat off your shoulder.
- An outfielder who
throws back of a runner is
locking the barn after the
horse is stolen.
- Keep your head up and
you may not have to keep it
down.
- When you start to
slide, slide. He who
changes his mind may have
to change a good leg for a
bad one.
- Do not alibi on bad
hops. Anybody can field the
good ones.
- Always run them out.
You can never tell.
- Do not quit.
- Do not find too much
fault with the umpires. You
cannot expect them to be as
perfect as you are.
- A pitcher who hasn’t
control, hasn’t anything
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Bill Zuber played 19 years of professional baseball. At the Major League
level, Zuber pitched for the Cleveland
Indians in 1936 and from 1938 to 1940,
the Washington Senators 1941-1942, the
1943 World Champion New York Yankees to
1946, and the Boston Red Sox 1946-1947.
Bill returned to the minor leagues for
the 1948 season, pitching for the
Louisville Colonels, before retiring.
In 1949, Bill a native of the Amana Colonies, purchased the century old
Homestead Inn, where he completely
modernized it into a restaurant.
Because of his activities pitching in
the American League, the name of "The
Dugout" was appropriately selected for
the newly established restaurant,
serving family style German-American
food. The restaurant operated from 1950
to 2003, when it closed due to a slow
tourism period.
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