“ Seaver, Fisk, they were men first, and athletes second. I admired them as men, and then, secondarily, as athletes. They had fucking standards. Maybe not my standards, but at least they had standards. They were AUTHENTIC. That’s all I expect in a subject.
Pat Jordan, in his interview with Deadspin’s A. J. Daulerio, lamenting the death of the respectable pro-athlete.
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