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“In the future I would have to find books with national interest. The world of books was changing, and to survive, I had to change with the times.”
― Baseball Heaven: Up Close and Personal, What It Was Really Like in the Major Leagues
― Baseball Heaven: Up Close and Personal, What It Was Really Like in the Major Leagues
“Doug Harvey was a stickler for the rules. When Harvey was in the minor leagues, all the other umpires would go out to a bar. But he’d be back in hotel room to spend at least one hour a day reading the rules. He knew the rule book better than anybody else.”
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“the window for hours. He wouldn't talk to anyone. The players whispered that Joe and his first wife, Dorothy, had been dating, trying to get back together,”
― 7: The Mickey Mantle Novel
― 7: The Mickey Mantle Novel
“To write a book about Mickey Mantle and not to show people who he really was doesn’t make any sense whatsoever. So I decided the only way to do this is call it a novel and plow full-speed ahead as to what my interpretation and my estimation of who he was and what was troubling him. This is a very complicated book. It’s hardly just about sex.”
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