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"Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species."
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"When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand."
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"Robinson was important to all blacks. To make it into the majors and to take all the name calling, he had to be something special. He had to take all this for years, not just for Jackie Robinson, but for the nation."
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"I think I was programmed to do good things when I came into the majors. I knew how to play."
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"I don't know anything about baseball."
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"I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes."
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"We used to play baseball back in that field and keep an eye out for the bulls."
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"I wasn't athletic. I played baseball, but I was terrible."
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"When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons."
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"It's tempting, because as one senator said to me, 'We know if we invite baseball down, we'll draw a crowd'."
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"Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended."
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"Journalists do not like to report on uncertainties. They would almost rather be wrong than ambiguous."
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"To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions."
Art
"It is one test of a fully developed writer that he reminds us of no one but himself."
Writer
"Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout."
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"Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species."
Baseball
"Nothing is more idealistic than a journalist on the defensive."
Nothing
"Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough "facts" and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with something that, at least by the standards of short-order cooks, could be called the truth."
Truth
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