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| Jimmy Cannon
"A curve ball that doesn't give a damn.""Baseball survives because guys like Clemente still play it.""Baseball, gentlemen, baseball!""I imagine rooting for the Yankees is like owning a yacht.""It is part of our national history that all boys dream of being Babe Ruth before they are anyone else.""It is the best of all games for me. It frequently escapes from the pattern of sport and assumes the form of a virile ballet. It is purer than any dance because the actions of the players are not governed by music or crowded into a formula by a director. The movement is natural and unrehearsed and controlled only by the unexpected flight of the ball.""Robinson is the loneliest man I have ever seen in sports.""The cruelty of Cobb's style fascinated the multitudes, but it also alienated them. He played in a climate of hostility, friendless by choice in a violent world he populated with enemies. Other players resented his calculated meanness. Their respect was reluctant but they were forced to present him with the trophy of their crabbed admiration. He was the strangest of all our national sports idols. But not even his disagreeable character could destroy the image of his greatness as a ballplayer. Ty Cobb was the best. That seemed to be all he wanted.""The Giants were our team. We left the tourists to the Yankees.""You're Yogi Berra, who wanted to be like the other guys. Now they want to be like you.""`Nice guys must finish last,' Durocher says. If that's the case, the Giants will win the pennant every year he manages them."A sportswriter is entombed in a prolonged boyhood. Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected. Women aren't embarrassed when they buy men's pajamas, but a man buying a nightgown acts as though he were dealing with a dope peddler. |
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