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Helping someone is what life is all about.

Willie Stargell

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Willie Stargell
Age: 71 †
Born: 1940
Born: March 6
Died: 2011
Died: December 17
Baseball Player
Earlsboro
Oklahoma
Wilver Dornell Stargell
Wilver Stargell
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Trying to hit Sandy Koufax was like trying to drink coffee with a fork.
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Reporters often forget that athletes are human beings.
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To middle-class parents, the project team may have seemed unfit for children, but it was exactly what I needed.
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It's supposed to be fun, the man says 'Play Ball' not 'Work Ball' you know.
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Human beings are pampered by the Lord. Their real tests don't come until later in life.
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I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.
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I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian.
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Simple pleasures were all the pleasures that I knew as a child.
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I've witnessed thousands of superior athletes try to becomes hitters and fail at it.
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Throwing a knuckleball for a strike is like throwing a butterfly with hiccups across the street into your neighbor's mailbox.
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I was always a self-proclaimed poor slider.
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I always said that when it was time to retire, I would know it, and I would just tip my hat to the crowds.
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Vietnam helped me realize who the true heroes really are in this world. It's not the home-run hitters.
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I would always reserve a special place in my heart for Pittsburgh.
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The Giants were a good team, but our biggest enemy was said to be Candlestick Park.
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We all wore a 21 patch that one season as a silent tribute to our deceased teammate Roberto.
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I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.
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Oakland revolved around Forbes Field. Nothing in the city could match that atmosphere.
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When we make a mistake, it becomes front-page news. We don't need any reporter telling us how badly we played.
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Never had I had so many friends and so much fun as I did in the projects.
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