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Sometimes in this game its as good to be lucky as it is to be good.

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Vida Blue
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: July 28
Athlete
Baseball Player
Mansfield
Louisiana
Vida Rochelle Blue
Lucky
Game
Games
Sometimes
Good

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I think I have signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman and child in the United States. What do they do with all those scraps of paper with my signature on it?
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I keep telling myself, don't get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw a baseball into the stands once in a while.
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Sure, it's nice to win. But there's only one thing that's important to me and that's the money we're going to get, win or lose. . . . I don't love baseball, I like it. And to me, baseball means money, and that's all I care about.
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Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball. He treated me like a damn colored boy.
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