Nice Guys Finish Seventh

False Phrases, Spurious Sayings, and Familiar Misquotations

by Ralph Keyes

1992 273 pages eng

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 ga…