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The number of times a catcher is injured in a season is surprising. At one time in 1909, for example, George Gibson of the Pittsburgh Pirates had black and blue marks imprinted by nineteen foul tips upon his body, a damaged hand, a bruise on his hip six inches square where a thrown bat had struck, and three spike cuts. Yet he had not missed a game and was congratulating himself on his "luck."

In 1910
John Joseph "Johnny" Evers
Chicago Cubs
2B
HOF 1947

I'll have to get nervous all over again.

When his first opening day start was postponed to the next day due to weather

April 10, 1959
Robert Carl "Bob" Anderson
Chicago Cubs
Pitcher

I liked when he didn't talk for about an inning and a half. Then all of a sudden, he'd be like, "The 2-2." You were like, "Where were the other 15 pitches?"

Commenting on growing up listening to White Sox broadcaster Hawk Harrelson

Jeffrey Alan "Jeff" Samardzija
Chicago Cubs
Pitcher

Give me a new ball. One you can see.

After an opposing player drew a walk, to home plate umpire Quinn Wolcott after which Pierzynski was promptly ejected from the game

Anthony John "A.J." Pierzynski
Chicago White Sox
Catcher

There are people back home washing cars who did that to me.

After the first 4-strikeout game of his major league career, when asked by reporters if it had ever happened to him before

Ronald Dale "Ron" Kittle
Chicago White Sox
LF

You get out there, and the stands are full and everybody's cheerin'. It's like everybody in the world come to see you. And inside of that there's the players, they're yakkin' it up. The pitcher throws and you look for that pill... suddenly there's nothing else in the ballpark but you and it. Sometimes, when you feel right, there's a groove there, and the bat just eases into it and meets that ball. When the bat meets that ball and you feel that ball just give, you know it's going to go a long way. Damn, if you don't feel like you're going to live forever.

George Daniel "Buck" Weaver
Chicago White Sox
IF

There are murderers who serve a sentence and then get out. I got life.

After being banned from baseball for life with the other seven "Black Sox Scandal" ballplayers despite not being involved in the 1919 World Series fix

George Daniel "Buck" Weaver
Chicago White Sox
IF

I owe baseball all that I have and much of what I hope to have. Baseball made my entrance to the film industry immeasurably easier than I could have made it alone. To the greatest game in the world, I shall be eternally in debt.

The television and movie actor attributing much of his success and career back to his baseball days during which he learned valuable lessons and teamwork

Kevin Joseph Aloysius "Chuck" Connors
Chicago Cubs
1B
One of only 12 NBA & MLB players

Well known for his TV show role in "The Rifleman"

If you have a bad day in baseball, and start thinking about it, you will have ten more.

Samuel Peralta "Sammy" Sosa
Chicago Cubs
OF

It was easy to figure out Mr. Rickey's thinking about contracts. He had both players and money, and just didn't like to see the two of them mix.

On Dodgers GM Branch Rickey, who originally signed Connors

Kevin Joseph Aloysius "Chuck" Connors
Chicago Cubs
1B
One of only 12 NBA & MLB players

Well known for his TV show role in "The Rifleman"

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