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We win if the world is convinced of two things, that you are a fine gentleman, and a great baseball player.

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
Fill in any figure you want for that boy (Mickey Mantle). Whatever the figure, it’s a deal.
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Baseball Boys Want
Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.
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Devil Handmaiden Leisure
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
A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
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Chance Great Player Take
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
Baseball people are generally allergic to new ideas; it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms, and it is the hardest thing in the world to get Major League Baseball to change anything—even spikes on a new pair of shoes—but they will eventually…they are bound to.
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Baseball Ideas Shoes
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
He (Leo Durocher) had the ability of taking a bad situation and making it immediately worse.
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Ability Bad Situation Taking
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
A full mind is an empty bat.
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Baseball Bats Mind
Don’t look at the hole in the doughnut. Look at the whole doughnut.
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Doughnut Holes Looks
Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.
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Devil Thinking Vision
Baseball is a game of inches.
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Baseball Games Inches
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
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

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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