"The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball."

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"The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball."

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"I was in the game for love. After all, where else can an old-timer with one leg, who can't hear or see, live like a king while doing the only thing I wanted to do?"

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"After a month or so in St. Louis, we were looking around desperately for a way to draw a few people into the ball park, it being perfectly clear by that time that the ball club wasn't going to do it unaided."

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"The Falstaff people, romantics all, went for it. They were so anxious to find out what I was going to do that they could hardly bear to wait out the two weeks. I was rather anxious to find out what I was going to do, too."

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"I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous."

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"What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat."

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"I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity."

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"I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing."

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