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One Quotes by Michael Lewis
- Some coaches believed they could judge a player's performance simply by watching it. In this they were deeply mistaken. The naked eye was an inadequate…
- One absolutely cannot tell, by watching, the difference between a .300 hitter and a .275 hitter. The difference is one hit every two weeks.
- If you had to point to one thing that made it less likely that the Red Sox would win the World Series, I would say…
- The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons.
- There used to be this guy called Vinny who worked on the floor of the stock exchange, said one big investor who had observed the…
- The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.
- There are several insights at the heart of the A's system that I think are wonderful for baseball. One, that it's a team game. That…
- Every form of strength is also a form of weakness,†he once wrote. “Pretty girls tend to become insufferable because, being pretty, their faults are…
- There was but one question he left unasked, and it vibrated between his lines: if gross miscalculations of a person's value could occur on a…
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