Quote: In two words: im-possible (UNCLASSIFIED)

Dan Goncharoff thegonch at GMAIL.COM
Wed Feb 10 16:41:21 UTC 2010


Try the Jan 24, 1983 issue. It's even mentioned in the subtitle.

Here's A Hot Dog You've Got To Relish
If there's any one word that describes St. Louis Pitcher Joaquin
Andujar, it would most surely be "Youneverknow"

DanG

On 2/10/2010 11:07 AM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
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>> In any case, a companion piece for one of my favorite (almost
>> apocryphal?) baseball quotes, uttered by St. Louis Cardinals' pitcher
>> Joaquin Andujar:
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>> "There is one word in America that says it all, and that one word is,
>> 'You never know.'"
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>>    Sports Illustrated, June 22, 1987 [according to the always reliable
>> internet sources]
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>> LH
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> Searching the SI archives at the SI Vault website does not confirm this
> quote -- but I don't know how complete those archives are.
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