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The greatest second baseman of them all; he could lay on his stomach and throw a hundred yards.

On teammate Fred Pfeffer

Michael Joseph "King" Kelly
Chicago White Stockings
OF
HOF 1945

He was a good umpire if you didn't tell him so too often.

On arbiter Hank O'Day

John Joseph "Johnny" Evers
Chicago Cubs
2B
HOF 1947

I don't know. I've never done it any other way.

When the Hall-Of-Famer was asked whether missing a finger on his throwing hand made it any harder to pitch successfully

Mordecai Peter Centennial "Three Fingers" Brown
Chicago Cubs
Pitcher
HOF 1949

Hey mister, can you spell "shit"?

When a spectator heckled the virtually illiterate slugger, asking "Hey Jackson, can you spell 'cat'?"

Joseph Jefferson "Shoeless Joe" Jackson
Chicago White Sox
OF
Contributed by: Lee Gibbs

This guy's pitching like he's double-parked outside the facility here.

Describing White Sox pitcher Mark Buehrle in a game that took less than two hours to complete, doing radio play-by-play and echoing an old Vin Scully comment regarding Bob Gibson's pitching style

Edward Joseph "Ed" Farmer
Chicago White Sox
Pitcher

I never saw a ball hit so hard before or since. It's probably still going.

When pitching for Pittsburgh in 1935 against Babe Ruth who was then with the Braves, describing the home run he gave up, Ruth's last career dinger, which sailed over the roof of Forbes Field

Guy Terrell Bush
Chicago Cubs
Pitcher

I kind of look at it like an odometer. It just kind of rolls over. So now it's at one year instead of 101.

Upon the Cubs being mathematically eliminated from post-season contention, making it official that they'll go 101 years without a World Series title

09/30/2009
Ryan Dempster
Chicago Cubs
Pitcher

I've seen all the best players of the past twenty years and no one's been better than Joe. I never tired of watching him bat. It was a pleasure to see him swing and when he hit the ball there was a ring to it that pleased the ear.

On former teammate "Shoeless" Joe Jackson

Edward Trowbridge "Eddie" Collins, Sr.
Chicago White Sox
2B

Joe Jackson hit the ball harder than any man that ever played in the big leagues, and I don't except Babe Ruth.

On former teammate "Shoeless" Joe Jackson

Edward Augustine "Big Ed" Walsh
Chicago White Sox
Pitcher

My assumption is that I'm probably going to face the best left-hander on somebody's team with guys on base and their chance for glory. I'm going to go try to get that guy out, and if I do my job, nobody will notice. If I don't, I'll read about it in the paper.

Upon being acquired by the White Sox prior to the 2011 season and discussing his possible role as a situational reliever

William McDaniel "Will" Ohman
Chicago White Sox
Left-Handed Relief Pitcher

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