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You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

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Jim Pagliaroni joined the club tonight and is going to be a welcome addition. He was describing a girl that one of the ballplayers had been out with and said, It's hard to say exactly what she looked like. She was kind of Joe Torre with tits. This joke can only be explained with a picture of Joe Torre. But I'm not sure any exist. He dissolves camera lenses.

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The older they get, the better they were when they were younger.

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If you had a pill that would guarantee a pitcher 20 wins, but might take five years off his life, he'd take it.

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Jim Bouton

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Born: March 8, 1939
Died: July 10, 2019 (aged 80)
Bio: James Alan "Jim" Bouton was an American retired professional baseball player. Bouton played in Major League Baseball as a pitcher for the New York Yankees, Seattle Pilots, Houston Astros, and Atlanta Braves between 1962 and 1978.
Known for:
  1. Ball Four (1970)
  2. Strike Zone (1994)
  3. I'm glad you didn't take it personally (1971)

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