Alvin Dark

Athlete

1922-01-07 – 2014-11-13

Alvin Dark was an American Major League Baseball shortstop and manager. He was the 1948 National League Rookie of the Year and later managed the Oakland Athletics to a World Series title in 1974.

Quotes by Alvin Dark

The Lord taught me to love everybody, but the last ones I learned to love were the sportswriters.
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Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.
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Slow thinkers are part of the game too. Some of these slow thinkers can hit a ball a long way.
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