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39 quotes found searching on Location: Brooklyn
It was a fastball up and in, and -- I've told him this -- the way he swung at the ball, and to hit the ball under those extenuating circumstances, under that pressure, he did a hell of a job.
Ralph Theodore Joseph Branca
Brooklyn Dodgers
Pitcher
a.k.a. "Hawk"
"(Eddie) Stanky couldn't hit, couldn't run, couldn't field, and couldn't throw, but he was the best player on the club. All Mr. Stanky could do for you was win.
Wesley Branch Rickey
Brooklyn Dodgers
General Manager
HOF 1967
Baseball isn't a business, it's more like a disease.
Brooklyn Dodgers
President
HOF 2008
You slow up half a step and it's the beginning of your last ball game. It might take a few years, but you're on your way out.
Brooklyn Dodgers
OF
That was a poor excuse for a ball club at Rock Hill. They were buying players for as little as $100 when you couldn't get a good batboy for that. We had a third baseman whose arm was so bad he would field a ground ball and toss it to the pitcher for a relay to first. He was hitting .250 and was, outside of me, our top hitter.
Walter Kirby Higbe
Brooklyn Dodgers
Pitcher
What are we out at the ballpark for, except to win?
Brooklyn Dodgers
Manager
HOF 1994
My eight years in Brooklyn gave me a new vision of America, or rather America gave me a new vision of a part of itself, Brooklyn. They were wonderful years. A community of over three million people, proud, hurt, jealous, seeking geographical, social, emotional status as a city apart and alone and sufficient. One could not live for eight years in Brooklyn and not catch its spirit of devotion to its baseball club, such as no other city in America equaled. Call it loyalty, and so it was. It would be a crime against a community of three million people to move the Dodgers. Not that the move was unlawful, since people have the right to do as they please with their property. But a baseball club in any city in America is a quasi-public institution, and in Brooklyn the Dodgers were public without the quasi.
Brooklyn Dodgers
General Manager
HOF 1967
Walk him on four pitches and pick him off first.
Elwin Charles "Preacher" Roe
Brooklyn Dodgers
Pitcher
Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shalt steal, and thou must.
Brooklyn Dodgers
General Manager
HOF 1967
Jackie, we've got no army. There's virtually nobody on our side. No owners, no umpires, very few newspapermen. And I'm afraid that many fans will be hostile. We'll be in a tough position. We can win only if we can convince the world that I'm doing this because you're a great ballplayer, a fine gentleman.
Wesley Branch Rickey
Brooklyn Dodgers
General Manager
HOF 1967
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