Long Island Ducks
LaPoint was the manager of the Long Island Ducks of the independent Atlantic League.
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Famous quotes containing the words long, island and/or ducks:
“And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?”
—Haniel Long (1888–1956)
“I candidly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States. The control which, with Florida, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“For hours, in fall days, I watched the ducks cunningly tack and veer and hold the middle of the pond, far from the sportsman;... but what beside safety they got by sailing in the middle of Walden I do not know, unless they love its water for the same reason that I do.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)