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«Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.»
Author: Alvin Dark
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Baseball,
Play
| Keywords:
accorded, baseball, baseball player, Baseball players, baseball season, Chicago, Chicago Cubs, cub, cubs, played, player, privilege, season, sunshine
«In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that.»
«There are surprisingly few real students of the game in baseball; partly because everybody, my eighty-three year old grandmother included, thinks they learned all there was to know about it at puberty. Baseball is very beguiling that way.»
Author: Alvin Dark
| About:
Baseball
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beguile, beguiled, beguiles, beguiling, eighty-three, eighty, grandmother, included, partly, puberty, surprisingly
«Friendships are forgotten when the game begins.»
Author: Alvin Dark
«Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a communist.»
«A manager doesn't hear the cheers.»
«[Quotable:] My first year in the big leagues was 1948, and the way we won the pennant, how easy it was, I thought, 'Man, we are going to play in the World Series every year.' I never realized until later how tough it was and what a big thing it is to win the pennant and get to the World Series. I found out in a hurry. When we lost to Cleveland and their great pitching staff, that's when I knew how really tough it is. ... Tales from the Tribe Dugout»
Author: Alvin Dark
«There'll be a man on the moon before Gaylord Perry hits a home run.»
«The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking.»
Author: Alvin Dark
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curve
«A fellow has to have faith in God above and Rollie Fingers in the bullpen.»
Author: Alvin Dark
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bullpen
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