Edd Roush quotes
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“One of my chores was to milk the cows, which meant getting up before dawn and going out to that cold dark barn. I didn't expect to make it all the way to the big leagues; I just had to get way from them damn cows.”
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“Some batters, and good ones too, scoff at the whole theory of place hitting, calling it a myth. They are wrong, however.”
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“Place hitting is, in a sense, glorified bunting. I only take a half swing at the ball, and the weight of the bat rather than my swing is what drives it.”
-- Edd Roush
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Source : "The Green Fields of the Mind," Yale Alumni Magazine, Nov. 1977
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“Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.”
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“To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.”
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“League is much, much more physical than Union, and that's before anyone starts breaking the rules.”
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