Brain dead? You can't be brain dead to play baseball, because you always have to adjust. Latin players, they're smart. I have friends all over the world, Spanish friends and English-speaking friends. They don't care. If you're good, you're good.
"Tony Pedro Oliva" is a former Major League Baseball right fielder and designated hitter. A star of the first magnitude during baseball's "second deadball era", he was a three-time List of Major League Baseball batting champions#American League/American League batting champion, five-time hit leader, and 1964 AL Rookie of the Year. Playing his entire 15-year baseball career for the Minnesota Twins (1962–1976), the left-handed batting/right-handed throwing Oliva was an eight-time Major League Baseball All-Star Game/All-Star and strong-armed Gold Glove fielder.
On a consensus Baseball Hall of Fame/Hall of Fame track his first eight years, his career was cut short in its prime by a series of severe knee injuries, forcing him to become a designated hitter during his final four years of baseball. He is widely regarded as one of the best players not inducted into the Hall of Fame. In 2014, he appeared on the Hall of Fame's Golden Era Committee election ballot for consideration, but missed getting inducted at Cooperstown, New York/Cooperstown in 2015, by one vote.
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He played hard but when he really wanted to play hard, no one was better than him. He had great range and could make some plays that others couldn't make.
That's not crazy, it's stupid. I think the guy made a very big mistake, and he should apologize. If you take away the Spanish players, you don't have baseball.
The last few times I saw him, he just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
I think it's great with all the opportunities that those players have now. By the time those kids here come here, they are ready for Rookie league or Class A league or whatever, because we can keep them (at the academies) for a couple years until we think they are ready to come here, and that makes a big difference.
I think that the game is the game. I think that expansion is good for the game because it gives more jobs to the people and more ballplayers can play, but I think the game is still the game. The ballplayers, they come into the game with one thing in mind -- it's their job.
It's almost impossible to go into the Hall of Fame the way the system is now. It's ridiculous ... If I played in New York, I'd be there a long time ago. You play in Minnesota, they stick it to you.
The last few times I saw him, he kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger. And we worried about him. I saw him about five months ago. He always tries to invite me. He says, 'Come to Arizona, and we'll play some golf.
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