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297 quotes found searching on Location: New York What's everyone blaming me for? Blame Felix. I wouldn't have hit into the double plays if he hadn't hit singles.In 1975 Why pitch nine innings when you can get just as famous pitching two?New York Yankees Relief Pitcher All relations and immediate friends are well informed that I desire to be buried in my baseball suit, and wrapped in the original flag of the old Knickerbockers of 1845, now festooned over my bureau.New York Knickerbockers IF/OF I played with Willie Mays, and against Hank Aaron. They were tremendous players, but they were no Josh Gibson.New York Giants OF HOF 1973; a.k.a. "Mr. Murder" One rule I had was make your best pitch and back up third base. That relay might get away and you've got another shot at him.New York Yankees Pitcher HOF 1972 Never let a pitcher who lost a tough game that afternoon be your driver that night. The fellow gets beaten 2 to 1 or 1 to 0. Maybe somebody booted one and cost him the ball game. Maybe the umpire missed a strike on him, or maybe somebody popped up with a chance to win the game. The pitcher gets behind that wheel and he gets brooding over what happened that afternoon. Life doesn't mean anything to him, his or the lives of the guys riding with him. He takes curves at fifty miles an hour and tries to run trucks off the road. What does he care? He just lost a tough ball game.Charles Dillon "Casey" Stengel "Baseball For Everyone" by Joe DiMaggio (1948) In the matter of gloves, it is up to the player himself to provide himself with a mitt which he can handle comfortably and deftly. Hank Greenberg played first base for Detroit with a glove so large that rival managers called it the "crab net," and there was even some talk of protesting to the league that it was illegal. Yet when Greenberg went to the outfield for the Tigers and Rudy York played first, York wore a glove that looked hardly larger than the mitten used by the motorman of a trolley car.New York Yankees OF HOF 1955; a.k.a. "Joltin' Joe" previous 10 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Search for quotes here! You can put in multiple words, or if you want to search on a particular phrase, "wrap it in quotes". |
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