Best Quotes by Alvin Dark (Top 9)
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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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A fellow has to have faith in God above and Rollie Fingers in the bullpen.
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In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that.
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Friendships are forgotten when the game begins.
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Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a Communist.
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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.
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There'll be a man on the moon before Gaylord Perry hits a home run.
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A manager doesn't hear the cheers.
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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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