Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.
Baseball is a game of inches.
(Responding to Ralph Kiner's request for a raise in salary while Rickey
was the general manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates during the early
fifties) "We finished last with you, we can finish last without you."
(Kiner was traded later on)
The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our
game is the black race.
Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize
that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.
I was in the top ten percent of my law school class. I am a Doctor of Juris Prudence. I have an honorary Doctor of Laws. So, would somebody please tell me why I spent four mortal hours today conversing with a person named Dizzy Dean.