If I had my career to play over, one thing I'd do differently is swing more. Those 1,200 walks I got, nobody remembers them.
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I had only played five games in my senior year in high school. I was not large enough. Hell, when I graduated, I was about five foot four and weighed 120 pounds. I didn't go with the Dodgers until spring training of 1940 and I weighed all of 155 pounds soaking wet.
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