We Win If The World Is Convinced

Baseball People Are Generally Allergic To New Ideas; It Took Years To Persuade Them To Put Numbers On Uniforms, And It Is The Hardest Thing In The World To Get Major League Baseball To Change Anything—even Spikes On A New Pair Of Shoes—but They Will Eventually...they Are Bound To.

Don't Worry About Your Individual Numbers. Worry About The Team. If The Team Is Successful, Each Of You Will Be Successful, Too.

Things Worthwhile Generally Don’t Just Happen. Luck Is A Fact, But Should Not Be A Factor. Good Luck Is What Is Left Over After Intelligence And Effort Have Combined At Their Best. Negligence Or Indifference Are Usually Reviewed From An Unlucky Seat. The Law Of Cause And Effect And Causality Both Work The Same With Inexorable Exactitudes. Luck Is The Residue Of Design.

A Game Of Great Charm In The Adoption Of Mathematical Measurements To The Timing Of Human Movements, The Exactitudes And Adjustments Of Physical Ability To Hazardous Chance. The Speed Of The Legs, The Dexterity Of The Body, The Grace Of The Swing, The Elusiveness Of The Slide - These Are The Features That Make Americans Everywhere Forget The Last Syllable Of A Man's Last Name Or The Pigmentation Of His Skin.

The Only Thing Abner Doubleday Ever Started Was The Civil War.