We've just been very fortunate we had good success against him and made good pitches on him, ... You have to contain him. You don't just totally shut him down.
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That's a lot of years to live in this game. To be in the game this long, you have to be very fortunate. A lot of people has been involved in this game and very few have spent that much time in the game. I feel very lucky, and I appreciate the opportunities that I've had and still have. I don't take anything for granted.Frank Robinson
It has to be cultivated. Just because you are playing a team that's down the road that doesn't mean it's a rivalry. Both teams have to be productive and winning over years and time. You have to create the fan interest and the media interest in it and that makes it a rivalry.
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Of course it matters, ... I'm going to put a kid at a position he hasn't played when I have other people, other options I wouldn't do it to him, number one.
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I know a lot of people on the field - players, coaches, managers - are glad that I'm gone.
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It's a regrettable incident. I'm sure that these guys support Jim like I do, today and in the future on this thing.
Frank Robinson
It was nervous time. Two errors in the ninth, I know we're all right because Cordero is on the mound.
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