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We'll keep Flick. Maybe he isn't quite a good a batter as Cobb, but he's much nicer to have on the team.

When Detroit manager Hughie Jennings proposed getting rid of Ty Cobb in a trade with Cleveland for Elmer Flick

Early 1907
Charles Somers
Cleveland Naps
Owner

To compare baseball with other games is to say the Hope Diamond is a nice chunk of carbon.

William Louis "Bill" Veeck
Cleveland Indians
Owner
HOF 1991

Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.

Robert William Andrew "Bob" Feller
Cleveland Indians
Pitcher
HOF 1962; a.k.a. "Rapid Robert"

I never took the game home with me. I always left it in some bar.

Robert Granville "Bob" Lemon
Cleveland Indians
Pitcher
HOF 1976

Yeah, you can pitch him low, but as soon as you throw the ball, run and hide behind second base.

Giving fatalistic advice on pitching to Ted Williams

Louis "Lou" Boudreau
Cleveland Indians
Manager

Some night Zahn's going to deliver the ball, and by the time it gets there, he's going to find out the batter has been waived out of the league or traded.

On the slow speed of Minnesota pitcher Geoff Zahn's pitches

Robert Granville "Bob" Lemon
Cleveland Indians
Pitcher
HOF 1976

I had to take it, but I fought back by hitting the ball as far as I could.

On facing racism in 1947 as the first African American player in the American League

Lawrence Eugene "Larry" Doby
Cleveland Indians
Outfield
HOF 1998

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