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(Dwight Gooden) his fastball crackling , his curveball dropping as suddenly as a duck shot in the air, has begun his charge for a third straight award-winning season.
In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer.
(Greg) Maddux is a master. He carved us up. He didn't give us anything good to hit.
Christy Mathewson brought something to baseball no one else had ever given the game. He handed the game a certain touch of class, an indefinable lift in culture, brains, and personality.
The best word to describe Albert Belle during the mid-1990s is "prolific." The man could flat hit.
Mickey Mantle was a very good golfer, but we weren't allowed to play golf during the season; only at spring training.
Fill in any figure you want for that boy (Mickey Mantle). Whatever the figure, it's a deal.
I'm glad I don't have to face that guy (Don Mattingly) every day. He has that look that few hitters have. I don't know if it's his stance, his eyes or what, but you can tell he means business.
I never faced a pitcher with better stuff than Nolan Ryan.
I really like Dontrelle Willis' pitch; he's animated on the mound and is fun to watch - he gets into the game emotionally.
Greaseball, greaseball, greaseball, that's all I throw him (Rod Carew), and he still hits them. He's the only player in baseball who consistently hits my grease. He sees the ball so well, I guess he can pick out the dry side.
(Roberto) Clemente could field the ball in New York and throw out a guy in Pennsylvania.
On behalf of Major League Baseball, I am terribly saddened by the sudden passing of Kirby Puckett. He was a Hall of Famer in every sense of the term. He was revered throughout the country and will be remembered wherever the game is played. Kirby was taken from us much too soon - and too quickly.
I'm no George Brett, and I probably never will be.
He was our symbol of baseball at a time when the game meant something to us that perhaps it no longer does.
He's so ugly. When you walked by him, your pants wrinkle. He made fly balls curve foul.
There is someone warming up in the Giants' bullpen, but he's obscured by his number.
Joe Morgan was the one guy that absolutely put our team really over the top ... Then we had George Foster come in; Ken Griffey Sr. was as good a two-place hitter as there has ever been in the game, and Cesar Geronimo won four Gold Glove awards. I mean, how could you ask for a better team?
George [Steinbrenner] is a great guy, unless you have to work for him.
I know who's the best pitcher I ever see and it's old Satchel Paige, that big lanky colored boy. My fastball looks like a change of pace alongside that little pistol bullet ole Satchel (Paige) shoots up to the plate.
Some people is born at the start of a long hard row to hoe. Well, I am older than God's dog and been in this world a long time and it seems to me that right from the git-go, Larkin Stanton had the longest and hardest row I've ever seen.
Jerry Coleman was the kind of player who made me proud to wear the pinstripes.
I don't like the designated hitter. A guy who plays should be able to catch and hit.
He (Lou Gehrig) just went out and did his job every day.
(Mike) Schmitty provided what the relief pitchers need most, home runs and great defense. He's the best third baseman that I ever played with, and maybe of all-time. Obvious Hall of Famer, even then. He retired while on top of his game. I thought for sure he was going to hit 600 home runs.
He's (George Steinbrenner) the one who gave me a chance to get to the World Series. This is where I wanted to be all along. We had a couple of nice offers from other teams, but I tied my agents' hands. I told them I wanted to be a Yankee.
A good lead-off hitter is a pain in the ass to pitchers.
Derek Jeter is one who played for such a long time, and David Ortiz in Boston is doing it right now.
The Gotham boys have a first baseman, Louis Gehrig, who is called the 'Babe Ruth' of the high schools," wrote the Chicago Tribune.
Although he is a very poor fielder, he is a very poor hitter.
batter hell-bent on hitting a home run.
People I look to: again, Hank Aaron, man you challenged the status quo and the records of the game. Monumental feats in an era where people didn't like that.
Bobby Brown reminds me of a fellow who's been hitting for 12 years and fielding one.
Don't worry, Rickey, you're still the best.
Born on third base and think they hit a triple,
Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.
Good afternoon ... My name is Lucy ... I'm going to be your right-fielder ... Our special today is a misjudged fly-ball. We also have a nice bobbled ground ball and an exellent late throw to the infield ... I'll be back in a moment to take your order.
Mike Matheny, Fernando Vina, Edgar Renteria, Mark McGwire and Darryl Kile ... before he died. Those guys took me under their wing and taught me the way to play the game the right way.
If there was ever a man born to be a hitter it was me.
Whenever we play the Twins, Torii Hunter has a major impact on defense. He tells the left fielder and the right fielder to take the day off and he covers the whole outfield.
Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted.
Ted Williams is one of the best hitters ever to play the game, and I didn't get a chance to see him play, so all I could do was read books and look at pictures.
The career batting average (.254) during parts of five Major League seasons for Francisco Cabrera - which proves that it takes only one big hit, on the right stage, to become a legend. Cabrera is still honored in Atlanta, and rightfully so, for winning the 1992 NLCS vs. Pittsburgh.
Willie Mays was the best ever. When I was in college I once made a catch like the one Mays made over his head. Sometimes when I'm lying in bed at night I think about it. It still makes me warm.
I just hope Sammy (Sosa) gets the attention he deserves. Not only has he hit sixty-two homers, but he has carried us. He is without doubt the MVP of the National League.
(Rogers) Hornsby could run like anything but not like this kid. (Ty) Cobb was the fastest I ever saw for being sensational on the bases ...
You remember what happened when Eddie Pipp got hurt? A guy named Lou Gehrig took over.
No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
Gehrig had one advantage over me. He was a better ballplayer.
I'm not a big baseball fan, to be honest.
I never saw a pitcher I didn't feel sorry for.
We need just two players to be a contender. Just Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax.
I was a big Dave Winfield guy growing up.
I want to be to the White Sox what Derek Jeter is to the Yankees..
Tony Gwynn, the fat batter behind Finley, is waiting.
Babe Ruth was the home-run king of his time, but also the strikeout king.
I went through baseball as 'a player to be named later.'
Mr. Davis, 66, who is known as Sluggo,
Carl Yastrzemski was the best all-around player. He could run, throw and hit. He had the ability to play a number of different positions. He signed as a shortstop. He could play the outfield, of course, and third base and first, too. He was a tremendous athlete. Mickey Mantle was unbelievable, too.
The day I got a hit off (Sandy) Koufax was when he knew it was all over.
They can't have Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling lose a game.
I can't very well tell my batters don't hit it to him. Wherever they hit it, he's there anyway.
Hey Mantle, you win. You're the worst.
Any ballplayers that played for me on either the Cardinals or the Yankees could come to me if he were in need and I would give him a helping hand. I made only two exceptions, Carl Mays and Joe Bush. If they were in a gutter, I'd kick them.
Johnny Sain don't say much, but that don't matter much, because when you're out there on the mound, you got nobody to talk to.
He (Hoyt Wilhelm) had the best knuckleball you'd ever want to see. He knew where it was going when he threw it, but when he got two strikes on you, he'd break out one that even he didn't know where it was going.
What makes a good pinch hitter? I wish the hell I knew.
There was never a man in the game who could put mind and muscle together quicker and with better judgment than (Jackie) Robinson.
He (Roberto Clemente) is a hero to me.
The best ballplayer's the one who doesn't think he made good. He keeps trying to convince you.
Clemens, Seaver, Gibson, Maddux - I just don't see myself in that category. I'm flattered that maybe it's debatable at this point.
He was something like zero for twenty-one the first time I saw him. His first major league hit was a home run off me and I'll never forgive myself. We might have gotten rid of Willie (Mays) forever if I'd only struck him out.
I don't want to take anything away from Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle. They're both great hitters, but they're batting against guys they never would have seen in previous years.
I hate all hitters. I start a game mad and I stay that way until it's over.
I still credit Adrian Lester with being one of my biggest influences.
Billy Loes was the only player in the majors who could lose a ground ball in the sun
He's (Rafael Palmeiro) always the left-handed swing you want to copy.
He's got a real smooth swing and he's never off balance. He's always on top of
the ball. I just like watching him hit.
Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.
The Phillies in the 1960s had shortstop Bobby Wine and second baseman Cookie Rojas, a period known as the Days of Wine and Rojas.
Rickey was never motivated by stats. He was motivated by numbers. Wins, runs, steals.
Why shouldn't we pitch to Babe Ruth? We pitch to better hitters in the National League.
I had massive admiration for lots of players. Richard Hill would be up there, along with Martin Johnson.
I would love to say that I have an eighth-inning guy, a seventh-inning guy, a left-handed guy, a long guy.
A distinctly ordinary player of extraordinary dirtiness.
I don't think I've ever seen anybody with quicker hands than Soriano.
If I was going to make one rule change, I would bring the DH in the National League.
Don Gullett's the only guy who can throw a baseball through a car wash and not get the ball wet.
The other guys, all they have to do is use their big butts and big python arms to hit homers. Me, I'm the little guy in the group. People always root for the little guy.
What is the top requirement for a second baseman? A fine shortstop. I am fortunate in having the greatest shortstop in baseball, Luis Aparicio.
Joseph Cotten, who said, You know how I got my name? Sammy Davis picked it for me. Never got a dinner!
I am a huge Red Sox fan.
He (Gil Hodges) fields better on one leg than anybody else I got on two.
I'm a finesse pitcher without the finesse.
Goose Gossage is a friend of mine, and he's definitely a Hall of Fame pitcher in my mind.
Hit a home run - put your head down, drop the bat, run around the bases, because the name on the front is more - a lot more important than the name on the back.
Whether your name is (Lou) Gehrig or (Cal) Ripken, (Joe) DiMaggio or (Jackie) Robinson, or that of some youngster who picks up his bat or puts on his glove, you are challenged by the game of baseball to do your very best day in and day out. That's all I've ever tried to do.
I hated to bat against Drysdale. After he hit you he'd come around, look at the bruise on your arm and say, 'Do you want me to sign it?'
George Bowering doesn't play fair. Baseball Love is so good there is no memoir in the league that can go up against it. Bowering has a sense of story and an eye for detail that eliminate the possibility that he was a lousy second baseman. Reading a home run is fun.
After I got that hit off Satchel (Paige), I knew I was ready for the big leagues.