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Everything he hit was really blessed. He could break bones with his shots. Blindfold me and I could still tell you when Joe hit the ball. It had a special crack.
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Ernie Shore, as quoted in Baseball America (2001) by Donald Honig, p. 107

 

Shoeless Joe Jackson

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Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts.

 

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He felt as if someone far away below in the darkness was chipping away at the pillars of his mind, and the steady crack...crack...crack of it was the only sound in the universe.

 

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