"If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person."

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"If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person."

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"People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy."

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"Remember when I told you about the American dream? That if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough and kicked yourself in the butt, you'd succeed? Well, I think I did, I think I did."

Dream

"Customary though it may be to write about that institutionalized pastime as though it existed apart from the general environment, my story does not lend itself to such treatment."

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"I'm a human being I'm not a piece of property. I am not a consignment of goods."

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"But I want you to know that what I'm doing here I'm doing as a ballplayer, a major league ballplayer."

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"I lost money, coaching jobs, a shot at the Hall of Fame."

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"I was told by the general manager that a white player had received a higher raise than me. Because white people required more money to live than black people. That is why I wasn't going to get a raise."

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"All the grand work was laid for people who came after me. The Supreme Court decided not to give it to me, so they gave it to two white guys. I think that's what they were waiting for."

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