"All [Mike Schmidt] had to do," [Rabbit] explains to Benny, "to earn another half million was to stay on the roster until August fifteenth. And he began the season like a ball of fire, two home runs the first two games, coming off that rotator-cuff surgery. But, like Schmidt himself said, it got to the point where he'd tell his body to do something and it wouldn't do it. He knew what he had to do and couldn't do it, and he faced the fact and you got to give him credit. In this day and age, he put honor over money."
~~ from Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
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