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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"

When Cobb is on first base and breaks for second, the best thing you can do, really, is throw to third.

On Tigers OF Ty Cobb's baserunning abilities

Ray William Schalk
Chicago White Sox
C
HOF 1955

It don't take school stuff to help a fella play ball.

Not able to read or write, after batting .408 in 1911, his first full season in the majors

Joseph Jefferson "Shoeless Joe" Jackson
Chicago White Sox
OF

The education and the mind and spirit discipline that I learned at New Orleans University enabled me to observe and absorb the baseball training techniques and strategy of my mentors.

As his mother emphasized education, Malarcher attended and graduated from college before becoming a professional ballplayer and he stated after his playing days were over that he firmly believed that his education helped him as a baseball player

David Julius "Gentleman Dave" Malarcher
Chicago American Giants
3B

We are the ship; all else, the sea.

Describing Negro League baseball

Andrew Bishop "Rube" Foster
Chicago American Giants
Manager
HOF 1981

That's too bad. They're the only team I can beat.

Upon learning that he'd been traded to the Phillies

March 19, 1955

David Bruce "Dave" Cole
Chicago Cubs
P

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