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"[to the Peaches' homely chaperone] By the way, I loved you in the Wizard of Oz."
"[to an umpire] Did anyone ever tell you, you look like a penis with that little hat on? [after the umpire throws him out] I can't believe nobody ever called you that before!"
""Here's a job for you, Jimmy. Managing girl ballplayers. Just go out there, wave your little hat around - but don't drink." Ah! Why would I wanna drink? I'm a goddamn Peach! [Hits a ground ball] Ah, double play! Now I'm hitting like a girl. "But be nice to them, they're good ballplayers." [Hits a deep fly ball] Ah! Catch that, blondie! Ha, ha!"
"[to Dottie] You ever hear Dad introduce us to people? "This is our daughter Dottie, and this is our other daughter, Dottie's sister." Should've just had you and bought a dog!"
"To achieve the incredible you have to attempt the impossible."
"There's no crying in baseball!"
"This summer, Tom Hanks and the Rockford Peaches prove that a woman's place is at home...first, second & third."
"Once in a lifetime you get a chance to do something different."
"A woman's place is on home, first, second, and third."
"Tom Hanks - Jimmy Dugan"
"Geena Davis - Dottie Hinson"
"Lori Petty - Kit Keller"
"Jon Lovitz - Ernie Capadino"
"Madonna (entertainer) - Mae Mordabito"
"Bitty Schram - Evelyn Gardner"
"Anne Ramsay - Helen Haley"
"Megan Cavanagh - Marla Hooch"
"Rosie O'Donnell - Doris Murphy"
"Tracy Reiner - Betty "Spaghetti" Horn"
"Renée Coleman - Alice "Skeeter" Gaspers"
"Ann Cusack - Shirley Baker"
"David Strathairn - Ira Lowenstein"
"Garry Marshall - Walter Harvey"
"Bill Pullman - Bob Hinson"
"Janet Jones - Racine pitcher"
"Téa Leoni - Racine first base"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.