Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
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Showing posts with label Lou Brock. Show all posts
Sunday, December 21, 2025
Thursday, December 26, 2024
Quotes for Today
Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks!
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Friday, December 22, 2023
Quotes for Today
Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
"Yet what they became was the not the result of a sudden act, but the culmination of all they had ever done: a triumph of self-development, the end of something general, the beginning of something specific." - William Kennedy
"One reason we resist change is that keeping things the way they are requires almost no effort. This helps explain why we get so complacent," - Shane Parrish
"The great enemy of any attempt to change men's habit is inertia. Civilization is limited by inertia." - Edward Bernays
"Show we a guy that's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time." - Lou Brock
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Monday, September 03, 2007
Top 5 - Baseball Players from Arkansas
Here are who I consider the top 5 baseball players born in Arkansas.
1. Brooks Robinson - perhaps the best defensive 3rd baseman in the history of baseball - 18 All-Star games and 16 Gold Gloves
2. Lou Brock - people remember that he retired as the all-time leader in steals (since passed by Rickey Henderson) but people forget that Brock also had more than 3,000 hits (3,023)
3. Arky Vaughn - Hall of Fame shortstop - 9-time All-Star who retired with a career .318 batting average. Real first name was Joe.
4. Dizzy Dean - Hall of Fame pitcher whose career was cut short by injury. I would argue that if Dean is in the HoF then Smokey Joe Wood should be in too.
5. George Kell - Hall of Fame 3rd baseman - 10-time all star
You can flip the top 2 spots and I would not argue. Just missing the cut was Travis Jackson - a Hall of Fame shortstop although I could see nothing special about him and so left him off. Torii Hunter is also from Arkansas.
Here are who I consider the top 5 baseball players born in Arkansas.
1. Brooks Robinson - perhaps the best defensive 3rd baseman in the history of baseball - 18 All-Star games and 16 Gold Gloves
2. Lou Brock - people remember that he retired as the all-time leader in steals (since passed by Rickey Henderson) but people forget that Brock also had more than 3,000 hits (3,023)
3. Arky Vaughn - Hall of Fame shortstop - 9-time All-Star who retired with a career .318 batting average. Real first name was Joe.
4. Dizzy Dean - Hall of Fame pitcher whose career was cut short by injury. I would argue that if Dean is in the HoF then Smokey Joe Wood should be in too.
5. George Kell - Hall of Fame 3rd baseman - 10-time all star
You can flip the top 2 spots and I would not argue. Just missing the cut was Travis Jackson - a Hall of Fame shortstop although I could see nothing special about him and so left him off. Torii Hunter is also from Arkansas.
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