My idea of a real ball player is the fellow who can take the bad breaks with a grin and come up fighting Tony Lazzeri is the type I mean. A slump doesn't bother Tony any. He don't like them any more than the rest of us—but when one comes he just gets sore and fights his way out of it. And that's what it takes to make a ball player. Bob Meusel is that sort and so is Rogers Hornsby. I've seen Meusel go through 10 or 12 games without a hit, and be fighting just as hard and swinging just as hard as he did from the start. And that's the spirit that wins.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "My idea of a real ball player is the fellow who can take the bad breaks with a grin and come up fighting Tony Lazzeri is the type I mean. A slump doesn't bother Tony any. He don't like them any more than the rest of us—but when one comes he just gets sore and fights his way out of it. And that's what it takes to make a ball player. Bob Meusel is that sort and so is Rogers Hornsby. I've seen Meusel go through 10 or 12 games without a hit, and be fighting just as hard and swinging just as hard as he did from the start. And that's the spirit that wins." in the context of "In "Babe Ruth Says: Change Seen in Major Race," The Austin Statesman (July 17, 1929), p. 11" to mean that wisdom is timeless.