Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
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They should have done something a long time ago. The players who aren't taking drugs need to be protected from the ones taking them.... You've said to the public, 'Let's ignore it until the absolute last minute.' Now, everybody suffers, even the guy who's not taking anything.Jim Bouton
Back then, if you had a sore arm, the only people concerned were you and your wife. Now it's you, your wife, your agent, your investment counselor, your stockbroker, and your publisher.
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Most players saw amphetamines as harmless. But the professional athlete does a lot of things to his body that they don't think of as harmful.
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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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