Larry French
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"Lawrence Herbert French" was a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Pittsburgh Pirates (1929–1934), Chicago Cubs (1935–1941) and Los Angeles Dodgers/Brooklyn Dodgers (1941). A knuckleball specialist, French batted right-handed and threw left-handed. He was born in Visalia, California.

One author has described French as the best pitcher not in the Baseball Hall of Fame. In a 14-season career, French posted a 197–171 record with 1187 strikeouts and a 3.44 earned run average/ERA in 3152.0 innings pitched, including 40 shutouts and 198 complete games.

French joined the United States Navy after the Dodgers and became a career sailor, retiring in 1969 with the rank of Captain (naval)/Captain. He died in San Diego, California, at age 79.

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We've got a chance. We've got to win this week and hope North can knock off Whitley. There's a lot of hope involved in there. When we played Whitley, we had chance to beat them. But we've still got a prayer.

It's been murder, but fun.

We just are not executing the way that we need to be.

[French said his players have to disregard Montgomery's winless record and take care of business.] They're run into some tough breaks, but they've played people pretty well. They're struggling over there a bit, but that's typical when you come in with a new staff, ... They look solid on offense and defense, they just have tendency to lose focus.

We're not doing some things as well as we did early in the season. We have to get those kinds of problems corrected right now.