Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.
I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up.
It is decidedly not true that 'nice guys finish last'.
Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.
I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?
There is a thin line between genius and insanity, and in Larry's (MacPhail) case it was sometimes so thin you could see him drifting back and forth.