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Willie Stargell

Wilver Dornell Stargell (March 6, 1940 – April 9, 2001), nicknamed "Pops" in the later years of his career, was an American professional baseball player. He played his entire Major League Baseball (MLB) career (1962–1982) as the left fielder and first baseman for the Pittsburgh Pirates of the National League (NL). Over his 21-year career with the Pirates, he batted .282, with 2,232 hits, 423 doubles, 475 home runs, and 1,540 runs batted in, helping his team capture six NL East division titles, two National League pennants, and two World Series (1971, 1979). Stargell was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1988.

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I love September, especially when we're in it.

Love, September, Sports

The Giants were a good team, but our biggest enemy was said to be Candlestick Park.

Biggest, Enemy, Giants, Park, Sports, Team

To middle-class parents, the project team may have seemed unfit for children, but it was exactly what I needed.

Children, Exactly, Parents, Sports, Team

A World Series trophy is a wonderful thing to behold.

Behold, Sports, Trophies, Wonderful, World

Judgment traps you within the limitations of your comparisons. It inhibits freedom.

Comparisons, Judgment, Limitations, Sports, Traps

They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball. And they tell you to hit it square.

Ball, Baseball, Hit, Round, Sports, Squares

I've always been a slave to my heart.

Heart, Slave, Sports

I've witnessed thousands of superior athletes try to becomes hitters and fail at it.

Athlete, Hitters, Sports, Superior, Trying, Witnessed

When we make a mistake, it becomes front-page news. We don't need any reporter telling us how badly we played.

Make, Mistake, Needs, News, Played

I see a lot of people who love their jobs. I see some garbage collectors smiling as they go about their work.

Jobs, Love, See, Smile, Sports, Work

Don't be sharp or flat; just be natural.

Flat, Motivational, Natural, Sharp, Sports

I wasn't out drinking and abusing my body. I simply loved to go out and dance.

Abusing, Dance, Drinking, Sports

Unfortunately, inner feelings and potential are often stunted by our parents, relatives or peers.

Feelings, Parent, Potential, Pregnancy, Relatives, Sports

I would always reserve a special place in my heart for Pittsburgh.

Heart, Place, Reserve, Special, Sports

I never did allow anything to keep me from my kids. They're the most important part of my life.

Allow, Important, Keep, Kids, Part, Sports

I'm always amazed when a pitcher becomes angry at a hitter for hitting a home run off him. When I strike out, I don't get angry at the pitcher, I get angry at myself. I would think that if a pitcher threw up a home run ball, he should be angry at himself.

Becomes, Home, Running, Think, Thinking, Threw

I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian.

Bred, Outcast, Part, Raised, Years

Never had I had so many friends and so much fun as I did in the projects.

Friends, Fun, Projects, Sports

Human beings are pampered by the Lord. Their real tests don't come until later in life.

Come, Human, Later In Life, Lord, Real, Sports

I'm proud of the fact that I'm the only player to hit a ball completely out of Dodger Stadium.

Ball, Balls, Fact, Player, Sports, Stadium

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