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We used to make out that's a submarine. We'd make those pinging sounds, and if a ball came near us it was a depth charge, and we'd fire our torpedoes. If the ball bounced off the little screen, that was a direct hit, and we'd panic and then ask for damage reports.
July 1985
Daniel Raymond "Dan" Quisenberry
Kansas City Royals
Pitcher
a.k.a. "Quiz", "Q"
My thoughtful stuff.
Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige
Kansas City Monarchs
Pitcher
HOF 1971
I've never heard a bat louder than his. You hear it going through the strike zone and the sound is unmistakable. It goes vump. That's when he misses.
Kenneth Smith "Ken" Harrelson
Kansas City Athletics
1B
a.k.a., "Hawk"
Our backs are to the wall. The Berlin Wall. East Side. But they say Berlin is nice this time of year. Maybe it's time for a great escape.
Daniel Raymond "Dan" Quisenberry
Kansas City Royals
Pitcher
a.k.a. "Quiz", "Q"
You know, I didn't think I was that bad a ballplayer. But they're making a believer out of me.
James Charles "Jim" Gosger
Kansas City Athletics
OF
People say it's a shame he never pitched against the best. But who's to say he didn't?
John Jordan "Buck" O'Neil
Kansas City Monarchs
1B
I didn't want to win it by sneaking in the back door, but I did sneak in the back door. My pride told me to play, but my common sense told me not to. I went with my common sense.
Willie James Wilson
Kansas City Royals
OF
The average hitter is a struggling hitter. If you're at .250 or .260, where most players find themselves, it never comes easy. You have to go out and grind it out, day after day, just to stay at that level. A .250 hitter hits one ball good every night, and if it happens to go right at somebody, he's in trouble.
Kansas City Royals
Manager
I got a chance to see Rube Foster manage from the dugout. And Rube Foster had a pipe. And he was giving signals with smoke rings and things like that. This fascinated me. The way he was running the show. He did it all. He was born to be baseball, Rube was. He had an excellent mind and was more or less two innings ahead of everybody else. He devised a system that had never been seen in baseball before. Rube picked all the men to play. He put on all of the plays and he had the type of men that could do just what he wanted them to do. And it was a case of...can you imagine, a ball club with eight or nine Rickey Hendersons? This was the Chicago American Giants in 1911, 1912. Everybody could go to first base in under four seconds, and Rube would score runs without a base hit. If you walked the lead off man, he'd bunt the ball, bunt and run, hit and run, steal home base. It changed the way a pitcher had to pitch.
Kansas City Monarchs
1B
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