Larry Doby quotes
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“Kids are our future, and we hope baseball has given them some idea of what it is to live together and how we can get along, whether you be black or white.”
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“I knew being accepted was going to be hard, but I knew I was involved in a situation that was going to bring opportunities to other blacks.”
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“I was never bitter because I believed in the man upstairs. I continue to do my best. I let someone else be bitter. If I was bitter, I was only hurting me. I prefer to remember Bill Veeck and and Jim Hegan and Joe Gordon, the good guys. There is no point in talking about the others.”
-- Larry Doby
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Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1998). “A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti”, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
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“Once I went to bed in Orlando and I woke up in Atlanta. I have no idea how that happened.”
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