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4 quotes found searching on John Jordan "Buck" O'Neil
In baseball there's always tomorrow. Maybe you got me today, but tomorrow -- I'm coming back.
Kansas City Monarchs
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Shed no tears for Buck. I couldn't attend Sarasota High School. That hurt. I couldn't attend the University of Florida. That hurt. But not going into the Hall of Fame, that ain't going to hurt me that much, no. Before, I wouldn't even have a chance. But this time I had that chance. Just keep loving old Buck.
John Jordan "Buck" O'Neil
Kansas City Monarchs
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People say it's a shame he never pitched against the best. But who's to say he didn't?
John Jordan "Buck" O'Neil
Kansas City Monarchs
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I got a chance to see Rube Foster manage from the dugout. And Rube Foster had a pipe. And he was giving signals with smoke rings and things like that. This fascinated me. The way he was running the show. He did it all. He was born to be baseball, Rube was. He had an excellent mind and was more or less two innings ahead of everybody else. He devised a system that had never been seen in baseball before. Rube picked all the men to play. He put on all of the plays and he had the type of men that could do just what he wanted them to do. And it was a case of...can you imagine, a ball club with eight or nine Rickey Hendersons? This was the Chicago American Giants in 1911, 1912. Everybody could go to first base in under four seconds, and Rube would score runs without a base hit. If you walked the lead off man, he'd bunt the ball, bunt and run, hit and run, steal home base. It changed the way a pitcher had to pitch.
Kansas City Monarchs
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