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Blind people come to the park just to hear him pitch.

Reggie Jackson

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Reggie Jackson
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: May 18
Baseball Player
Reginald Martinez Jackson
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Just like every other kid in my grade school, I was listening to my little radio plug in my ear when Mickey Mantle hit 18 post-season homers and won series after series for the Yankees. I listened and I learned from that. I think he was the original 'Mr. October,' but thank god it didn't stick.
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So many ideas come to you and you want to try them all, but you can't. You're like a mosquito in a nudist colony, you don't know where to start.
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The way things are going the faces on next year's bubble-gum cards will be lawyers.
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Sometimes I underestimate the magnitude of me.
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When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it's like you've thought of something and put it with beautiful clarity.
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The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play.
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It's a fickle town, a tough town. They getcha, boy. They don't let you escape with minor scratches and bruises. They put scars on you here.
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The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it.
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