"Why should God wish to take a thoroughbred like Matty so soon, and leave some others down here that could well be spared?"

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Lamenting on the death of the famously virtuous former N.Y. Giants pitcher Christy Mathewson in 1925. Quoted in Christopher Hodge Evans, William R. Herzog, The Faith of Fifty Million: Baseball, Religion, and American Culture (Westminster John Knox Press, 2002, ), p. 77.