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"Nice guys finish seventh" : false phrases, spurious sayings, and familiar misquotations
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- Description
- Leo Durocher is best remembered for saying, "Nice guys finish last." He never said it. What the Brooklyn Dodgers' manager did say, before a 1946 game with the New York Giants, was: "The nice guys are all over there. In seventh place." Durocher's words lacked pop. Sportswriters perked them up, and gave America one of its most familiar misquotations. Ralph Keyes points out in "Nice Guys Finish Seventh" that many of our best-known sayings, phrases, and quotations are inaccurate, misattributed, or both. Separate chapters focus on misquotes in history, politics, show business, sports, literature, and academia.
- Publication date
- [1992]
- Call number
- 633906
