Alvin Dark Quotes

• Friendships are forgotten when the game begins.

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• The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking.

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• The Lord taught me to love everybody, but the last ones I learned to love were the sportswriters.

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• The Giants were supposed to have a new motto, ‘Shut up and deal.’

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• Slow thinkers are part of the game too. Some of these slow thinkers can hit a ball a long way.

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• In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that.

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• Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That’s baseball as it should be played – in God’s own sunshine. And that’s really living.

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• Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a communist.

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• A manager doesn’t hear the cheers.

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• A fellow has to have faith in God above and Rollie Fingers in the bullpen.

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Birth:	7th January, 1922
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Baseball Player, Manager

About

Alvin Dark nicknamed "Blackie" and "The Swamp Fox", is a former shortstop and manager in Major League Baseball who played for five National League teams from 1946 to 1960. Named the major leagues' Rookie of the Year with the 1948 Boston Braves when he batted .322. After joining the New York Giants he hit .300 three more times and became the first NL shortstop to hit 20 home runs more than once. His .411 career slugging average was the seventh highest by an NL shortstop when he retired, and his 126 home runs placed him behind only Ernie Banks and Travis Jackson. After leading the NL in putouts and double plays three times each, he ended his career with the seventh most double plays (933) and tenth highest fielding percentage (.960) in league history. He went on to become the third manager to win pennants with both National and American League teams.

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