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American baseball player and manager (d. 1958), Birth: 4-4-1888, Death: 8-12-1958
1.
The American boy starts swinging the bat about as soon as he can lift one.
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2.
Taking the best left-handed pitcher in baseball and converting him into a right fielder is one of the dumbest things I ever heard.
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3.
If you put a baseball and other toys in front of a baby, he'll pick up a baseball in preference to the others.
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4.
Babe Ruth made a great mistake when he gave up pitching.
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5.
It would be useless for any player to attempt to explain successful batting.
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6.
Luck is the great stabilizer in baseball.
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7.
When I was a rookie, Cy Young used to hit me flies to sharpen my abilities to judge in advance the direction and distance of an outfield-hit ball.
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