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“Everyone in the world disagrees with me, including some managers, but I think managing in the American League is much more difficult for that very reason (having the designated hitter). In the National League, my situation is dictated for me. If I'm behind in the game, I've got to pinch hit. I've got to take my pitcher out. In the American League, you have to zero in. You have to know exactly when to take them out of there. In the National League, that's done for you.”

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Author:Jim Leyland

“What had I expected of the first child? Everything. Rocket scientist. Neurosurgeon. Designated hitter. We talked wisely at cocktail parties about the sad mistake our mothers had made in pinning all their hopes and dreams on us. We were full of it.”

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Book:Living Out Loud

Source: Living Out Loud

“Lunatics are similar to designated hitters. Often an entire family is crazy, but since an entire family can't go into the hospital, one person is designated as crazy and goes inside. Then, depending on how the rest of the family is feeling that person is kept inside or snatched out, to prove something about the family's mental health.”

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Book:Girl, Interrupted

Source: Girl, Interrupted

“They don't think it be like it is, but it do.”

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Author:Oscar Gamble

“The designated hitter rule is like letting someone else take Wilt Chamberlain's free throws.”

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Author:Rick Wise

“I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.”

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Author:Kevin Costner

“I wonder why there is a designated hitter in baseball after all these years? As an experiment, it seemed like a swell enough idea, but you would think the novelty would have worn off by now and everyone would get back to playing baseball.”

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Author:Jay Mohr

“I believe in the soul ... the small of a woman's back, the hanging curveball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve, and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.”

“Primarily, every rule change over the past ten years has been against the pitchers - lowering the mound and the designated hitter.”

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Author:Gaylord Perry

“Old third basemen become first basemen, and old first basemen become designated hitters.”

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Author:George Brett