Robert Augustus Nelson (born May 17, 1964) is a former Major League Baseball first baseman. He played parts of five seasons in the majors, from 1986 until 1990, for the Oakland Athletics and the San Diego Padres. He is the Founder and President of Hit One Deep Enterprises, a private Baseball instruction company based out of Temple City, CA. He also invented Big League Chew gum.
Famous quotes containing the words rob and/or nelson:
“His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.”
—Henry Fielding (1707–1754)
“Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better?”
—Jane Nelson (20th century)