Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it … - Branch Rickey

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Out of a human population on earth of four and a half billion, perhaps twenty people can write a book in a year. Some people lift cars, too. Some people enter week-long sled-dog races, go over Niagara Falls in a barrel, fly planes through the Arc de Triomphe. Some people feel no pain in childbirth. Some people eat cars. There is no call to take human extremes as norms.

Branch Rickey

Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.

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There was never a man in the game who could put mind and muscle together quicker and with better judgment than (Jackie) Robinson.

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