After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.
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Sometimes I sit in my den at home and read stories about myself. Kids used to save whole scrapbooks on me. They get tired of them and mail them to me. I'll go in there and read them, and you know what They might as well be about Musial and DiMaggio, it's like reading about somebody else.
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You don't realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth.
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Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He was beyond question one of the greatest players of the century.
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When I hit a home run I usually didn't care where it went. So long as it was a home run was all that mattered.
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