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Originally Posted by miami_fan
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MLB hires former Chicago Cubs president Theo Epstein as consultant to 'on-field matters'
Before this thread becomes obsolete, I just want to close the circle. Reading some of his comments he made in other articles about the baseball he likes to watch compared to the baseball he knew would win struck a chord with me.
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"The blind soldier fought for me in this war. The least I can do now is fight for him. I have eyes. He hasn’t. I have a voice on the radio, he hasn’t. I was born a white man. And until a colored man is a full citizen, like me, I haven’t the leisure to enjoy the freedom that colored man risked his life to maintain for me. I don’t own what I have until he owns an equal share of it. Until somebody beats me and blinds me, I am in his debt."- Orson Welles August 11, 1946
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