The movie was the life story of baseball pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander, who begin his professional career with a Galesburg minor league team in the early teens,

Poverty is a career for lot's of well paid people

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last -- but eat you he will.

I was raised to believe that God has a plan for everyone and that seemingly random twists of fate are all a part of His plan.

Most of my dreams came true. (told to biographer Lou Cannon in 1991)

Today we Americans lost a hero who always seemed larger than life. ... Bear Bryant gave his country the gift of a life unsurpassed. In making the impossible seem easy, he lived what we strive to be.