Leo Durocher coined one of the most famous terms used in every major sport around the world, even to this day — 'Nice guys finish last!' Did you know that Leo Durocher was often referred to as "Scrappy" and his all-out attitude earned him the nickname 'The All American Out'? Leo "The Lip" Durocher was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in and is one of the only managers ever to be . The resulting book, Nice Guys Finish Last, is baseball at its best, brimming with personality and full of all the fights and feuds, triumphs and tricks that made Durocher such a Cited by: · Durocher died in but the quote attributed to him lives on: "Nice guys finish last." It seems a regrettable quote, too often excusing and equating boorish behavior as leadership.
Durocher died in but the quote attributed to him lives on: "Nice guys finish last." It seems a regrettable quote, too often excusing and equating boorish behavior as leadership. Take a look at them. All nice guys. They'll finish last. Nice guys. Finish last." It's almost all true. Durocher may have given himself just a little too much credit in coming up with the. We've all heard the familiar expression "Nice guys finish last." But most people don't know the origin of the saying or about whom it was first said. The phrase was used by Brooklyn Dodgers manager Leo Durocher to describe former New Orleans area baseball great Mel Ott and his Giants team when the Giants were mired in last place during.
Leo Durocher with Ed Linn Nice Guys Finish Last ©, pages Paper $ ISBN: For information on purchasing the book—from bookstores or here online—please go to the webpage for Nice Guys Finish Last. Durocher, with Ed Linn, wrote a memoir titled Nice Guys Finish Last, a book that was recently re-published by the University of Chicago Press. Leo Durocher died in in Palm Springs, California, at the age of 86, and is buried in Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles. Nice Guys Finish Last. The history of baseball is rife with colorful characters. But for sheer cantankerousness, fighting moxie, and will to win, very few have come close to Leo "the Lip" Durocher. Following a five decade career as a player and manager for baseball's most storied franchises, Durocher teamed up with veteran sportswriter Ed Linn to tell the story of his life in the game.
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