Sneaking a sunrise past a rooster

From Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes, edited by Clifton Fadiman.  An anecdote about Hank Aaron. 

Aaron was known as a hitter who rarely failed, the bane of pitchers. As a pitcher on a rival team once said of him, “Trying to sneak a pitch past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak a sunrise past a rooster.