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Christy Mathewson [1880-1925] American

Rank: 106
Athlete, Baseball pitcher

Christopher "Christy" Mathewson, nicknamed "Big Six", "The Christian Gentleman", "Matty", and "The Gentleman's Hurler" was a Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher who played 17 seasons with the New York Giants.

Sports

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Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.	Sports	101
You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.		102
Anybody's best pitch is the one the batters ain't hitting that day.		103
If you've ever been around a group of actors, you've noticed, no doubt, that they can talk of nothing else under the sun but acting. It's exactly the same way with baseball players. Your heart must be in your work.		104
A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.		105
I owe everything I have to them when I'm out there on the mound. But I owe the fans nothing and they owe me nothing when I am not pitching.		106
A boy cannot begin playing ball too early. I might almost say that while he is still creeping on all fours he should have a bouncing rubber ball.		107
A pitcher is not a ballplayer.		108

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