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Alvin Dark Biography

Alvin Ralph Dark (January 7, 1922 – November 13, 2014), nicknamed "Blackie" and "The Swamp Fox", was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) shortstop and manager. He played fourteen years for five National League teams from 1946 through 1960. Dark was named the major leagues' 1948 Rookie of the Year after batting .322 for the Boston Braves.

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

Breaking, Curves, Know, Mistake, Want

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

Bullpen, Faith In God, Fingers, Have Faith, Rollie

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.

Accorded, Baseball, Living, Player, Season, Sunshine

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

Baseball, Communist, Pitcher, Racist, Throws, Trying

Friendships are forgotten when the game begins.

Baseball, Forgotten, Friendships, Game, Games

A manager doesn't hear the cheers.

Cheer, Cheers, Hear, Manager, Managers

The Giants were supposed to have a new motto, 'Shut up and deal. '

Deal, Giants, Motto, Shut Up, Supposed

There are surprisingly few real students of the game in baseball; partly because everybody, my eighty-three year old grandmother included, thinks they learned all there was to know about it at puberty. Baseball is very beguiling that way.

Baseball, Grandmother, Included, Real, Surprisingly, Way

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

Everybody, Lasts, Lord, Love, Sportswriters, Taught

There'll be a man on the moon before Gaylord Perry hits a home run.

Gaylord, Home, Moon, Run, Running

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

Games, Long, Balls, Part, Hit