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“Nobody has won thirty games in a season since Denny McLain did it in 1968. No other pitcher has drunk as many Pepsi-Colas, broken as many team rules, or played the organ as famously as McLain did. And there has never been another World Series game in which both starting pitchers had won the Cy Young and Most Valuable Player awards that year.”
Bob Gibson, Pitch by Pitch: My View of One Unforgettable Game

Tom Verducci
“The beauty of baseball is multidimensional, appealing to the eye and the mind. There is beauty, for instance, in its geometry, the space between the bases and the fielders; beauty in the arc of the season, which brings us out of doors to gather, until fall calls us back in; and beauty in its democracy, that each player hits in turn. But one of its greatest beauties is that, more than any other sport, it emboldens an expertise from those who watch it. Everybody can manage. That does not happen as easily in other sports. In”
Tom Verducci, The Cubs Way: The Zen of Building the Best Team in Baseball and Breaking the Curse

Doris Kearns Goodwin
“Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.”
Doris Kearns Goodwin

Ron Chernow
“This falling-out was to be more than personal, for the rift between Hamilton and Madison precipitated the start of the two-party system in America. The funding debate shattered the short-lived political consensus that had ushered in the new government. For the next five years, the political spectrum in America was defined by whether people endorsed or opposed Alexander Hamilton’s programs.”
Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton

Alexander McCall Smith
“A change of oil…yes, that was what we all needed from time to time, whether we were an engine or a person. And there were other similarities to be explored. Engines had to be handled gently, as did people. Forward gears were better than reverse gears—for people as well as engines.”
Alexander McCall Smith, Precious and Grace

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