Joseph Richard "Speed" Walker (January 23, 1898 – June 20, 1959) was a Major League Baseball player. Walker played for St. Louis Cardinals in the 1923 season. He played just two games in his career, having two hits in seven at-bats, with one run scored, playing first base.
Walker was born in Munhall, Pennsylvania, and died in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania.
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“There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and unknown impulse, sometimes act with a speed which they themselves would have thought beyond them.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)
“When and where will another come to take your holy place?
Old man mumbling in his dotage, or crying child, unborn?”
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