Nice Guys Finish Seventh: False Phrases, Spurious Sayings, and Familiar Misquotations by Ralph Keyes

Nice Guys Finish Seventh: False Phrases, Spurious Sayings, and Familiar Misquotations

Ralph Keyes

273 pages first pub 1992 (editions)

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Leo Durocher is best remembered for saying, "Nice guys finish last". He never said it. What the Brooklyn Dodgers' manager did say, before a 1946 game with the New York Giants, was: "The nice guys are all over there. In seventh place". Durocher's w...

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