"There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power." ~~Leo Durocher

"I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes." ~~Leo Durocher

"Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you." ~~Leo Durocher

"You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain." ~~Leo Durocher

"Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand." ~~Leo Durocher

Like picking horses (1969)

Billy Southworth was considered a "genious on the diamond".

He lived a long life. At age 76, in 1969, he died in Columbus, Ohio. He had emphysema. What is said at the funeral is always a tribute. One of Billy's former players on the 1948 Braves was there. He was Clint Conatser. Here is his tribute.

"He just had a gut feeling about the right thing to do in a situation," Conatser recalled. "The moves he would make would work for him — all the time, not occasionally. Leo Durocher was the same way. It's like some guys can pick horses out of nowhere. Southworth was a genius like that on the diamond."