Woody Woodward
William Frederick "Woody" Woodward (born September 23, 1942, in Miami, Florida) is a former professional baseball player, college baseball coach, and general manager. He played all or part of nine seasons in Major League Baseball, primarily as a shortstop, but is better known for his tenure as GM of the Seattle Mariners.
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“Dylan used to sound like a lung cancer victim singing Woody Guthrie. Now he sounds like a Rolling Stone singing Immanuel Kant.”
—Also quoted in Robert Shelton, No Direction Home, ch. 2, “Prophet Without Honor” (1986)
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—State of Oklahoma, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)