Shoeless Joe
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“Perhaps crossing the barriers of time has freed me.”
Source: The Iowa Baseball Confederacy
“[I] Played a little softball, but there was nowhere on the field it was safe for me to be.”
“My dad talked a good game. [I'm as a] child got only the World Series on the radio.”
“Yogi Berra, Bill Lee, they were irreverent, poked fun at the stodgy owners and managers.”
“Curt Flood, of course, was in a class by himself, a true hero.”
“Until Color TV came along, BW TV was too muddy to be enjoyable.”
“I'm a big fan of curling, follow all the major world events. Watch all four Tennis majors.”
“Basketball is the worst sport. They need to raise the basket at least two feet.”
“[I had ] uneventful, though isolated childhood. Good, kind, stable parents.”
“Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen.”
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“Any game becomes important when you know and love the players.”
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“Baseball games are like snowflakes and fingerprints, no two are ever alike.”
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“Someone once described the pitching of a no-hit game as like catching lighting in a bottle.”
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“Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.”
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“Heroes don't need to talk about what they did.”
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“I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.”