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The only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War.

Branch Rickey

The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide – these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man’s last name or the pigmentation of his skin.
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Country Elusiveness Features Last Man Name Yesterday
He (Leo Durocher) had the ability of taking a bad situation and making it immediately worse.
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Ability Bad Situation Taking
Negligence or indifference are usually reviewed from an unlucky seat. The law of cause and effect and causality both work the same with inexorable exactitudes. Luck is the residue of design.
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Design Indifference Negligence Review Usually
Don’t look at the hole in the doughnut. Look at the whole doughnut.
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Doughnut Holes Looks
The world’s not so simple anymore, I guess it never was. We ignored it, now we can’t.
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Ignore Simple World
Problems are the price you pay for progress.
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Adversity Progress Survival
First of all, a man, whether seeking achievement on the athletic field or in business, must want to win. He must feel that the thing he is doing is worthwhile; so worthwhile that he is willing to pay the price of success to attain distinction.
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Men Pay Price Winning
I cannot face my God much longer knowing that his black creatures are held separate and distinct from his white creatures in the game that has given me all that I can call my own.
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Games Knowing White
It (a baseball box score) doesn’t tell how big you are, what church you attend, what color you are, or how your father voted in the last election. It just tells what kind of baseball player you were on that particular day.
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Baseball Father Player
A full mind is an empty bat.
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Baseball Bats Mind
Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.
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Devil Thinking Vision
Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.
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Devil Handmaiden Leisure
If things don’t come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit.
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Effort Joy Zest
We win if the world is convinced of two things, that you are a fine gentleman, and a great baseball player.
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Baseball Player Winning
Good luck is what is left over after intelligence and effort have combined at their best. Luck is the residue of design.
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Design Effort Good Luck
Luck is a residue of design.
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Design Luck Residue

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