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Speaking of professors, Jim Brosnan's old book, "The Long Season", is back in print. It's a book about the 1959 season, when he started with the Cards and wound up with Cincinnati. Among the more surprising things is that Bing Devine doesn't come off as a particularly good guy in the book.

Brosnan wrote a second book, "The Pennant Race", about the 1961 season, and then was pretty much blackballed from baseball, which didn't like him writing at all. Sort of an early-day Bouton.

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"You have to be concerned about the future, but you also have to be more concerned about the present. If you have to give up two or three young kids - who may not be able to play for several years - to get help for your team now, you have to do it." - Bing Devine, 1999

"They call baseball a game because it's too screwed up to be a business." - Jim Bouton, 1971.

"Big deal. Anyone can win games when the other team doesn't score any runs." - Curt Flood to Bob Gibson, circa 1968