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My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica.

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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
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Oakland revolved around Forbes Field. Nothing in the city could match that atmosphere.
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I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.
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I don't really feel that I deserve all my applause.
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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 flailed my arm in a throwing motion before I could even walk.
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I loved to hit with men on base and with the game on the line.
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I'm proud of the fact that I'm the only player to hit a ball completely out of Dodger Stadium.
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Judgment traps you within the limitations of your comparisons. It inhibits freedom.
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People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can't think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can.
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I'm always amazed when a pitcher becomes angry at a hitter for hitting a home run off him. When I strike out, I don't get angry at the pitcher, I get angry at myself. I would think that if a pitcher threw up a home run ball, he should be angry at himself.
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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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We devote our entire lives to becoming good ball players. We take batting practice until our hands bleed.
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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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To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything.
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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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Human beings are pampered by the Lord. Their real tests don't come until later in life.
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Playing baseball was my dream, and no amount of money could sway my opinion.
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It's supposed to be fun, the man says 'Play Ball' not 'Work Ball' you know.
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I would always reserve a special place in my heart for Pittsburgh.
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Reporters often forget that athletes are human beings.
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