Alvin Dark quotes
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“A fellow has to have faith in God above and Rollie Fingers in the bullpen.”
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“Slow thinkers are part of the game too. Some of these slow thinkers can hit a ball a long way.”
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“Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a Communist.”
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“Friendships are forgotten when the game begins.”
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“The Giants were supposed to have a new motto, 'Shut up and deal.'”
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“The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking.”
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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.”
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“There'll be a man on the moon before Gaylord Perry hits a home run.”
-- Alvin DarkSource : "Pimping for the designated fan" by Jon Carroll, www.sfgate.com. July 13, 2009.
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“The Lord taught me to love everybody, but the last ones I learned to love were the sportswriters.”
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“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.”
-- Alvin Dark
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