Alvin Dark
Alvin Dark
Alvin Ralph Dark, nicknamed "Blackie" and "The Swamp Fox", was an American Major League Baseballshortstop and manager. He played fourteen years for five National League teams from 1946 through 1960. Dark was named the major leagues' 1948 Rookie of the Year after batting .322 for the Boston Braves...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth7 January 1922
CityComanche, OK
baseball games forgotten
Friendships are forgotten when the game begins.
baseball real grandmother
There are surprisingly few real students of the game in baseball; partly because everybody, my eighty-three year old grandmother included, thinks they learned all there was to know about it at puberty. Baseball is very beguiling that way.
taught lasts lord
The Lord taught me to love everybody, but the last ones I learned to love were the sportswriters.
running home moon
There'll be a man on the moon before Gaylord Perry hits a home run.
baseball sunshine player
Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.
mistake curves want
The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking.
giants shut-up motto
The Giants were supposed to have a new motto, 'Shut up and deal.'
cheer managers
A manager doesn't hear the cheers.
baseball trying pitching
Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a Communist.
games long way
Slow thinkers are part of the game too. Some of these slow thinkers can hit a ball a long way.
have-faith faith-in-god fingers
A fellow has to have faith in God above and Rollie Fingers in the bullpen.
american-athlete baseball die game hit remember sword
In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that.