Frasi di Kenesaw Mountain Landis

Kenesaw Mountain Landis è stato un giudice e dirigente sportivo statunitense, introdotto nella National Baseball Hall of Fame nel 1944. Wikipedia  

✵ 20. Novembre 1866 – 25. Novembre 1944
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“Why should God wish to take a thoroughbred like Matty so soon, and leave some others down here that could well be spared?”

Lamenting on the death of the famously virtuous former N.Y. Giants pitcher Christy Mathewson in 1925. Quoted in Christopher Hodge Evans, William R. Herzog, <i>The Faith of Fifty Million: Baseball, Religion, and American Culture</i> (Westminster John Knox Press, 2002, ISBN 0664223052), p. 77. http://books.google.com/books?id=nfk_O47SFGwC&pg=PA77&dq=%22like+Matty+so+soon