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Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.

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Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson.

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If you can do that - if you run, hit, run the bases, hit with power, field, throw and do all other things that are part of the game - then you're a good ballplayer.

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I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.

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When I'm not hitting, I don't hit nobody. But, when I'm hitting, I hit anybody.

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It's not hard. When I'm not hitting, I don't hit nobody. But when I'm hitting, I hit anybody.

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I don't mean to be bashful, but I was.

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At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports.

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And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5' 11". So I just picked baseball.

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I played with the Birmingham Black Barons. I was making 500 at 14. That was a lot of money in those days.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Athlete

Born: May 6th, 1931

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