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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
Joseph Paul "Joe" Torre
New York Yankees
Manager
HOF 2014
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
New York Yankees
Manager
HOF 1966
"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"
How can you tell?
Vernon Louis "Lefty" Gomez
New York Yankees
Pitcher
HOF 1972
I got two strikes on the batter. He fouled them off and the catcher gave me a third pitch-out sign. He thought he'd go after a bad ball for the third strike. He didn't go for that. So the catcher came out and he says, "I'll give you the curveball sign this time." And I gave him the best curveball he ever seen and he just looked at it. And the umpire says, "Three strikes, and you're out." And I didn't know who the batter was. So the next morning I picked up a New York Journal and in the sporting page it had in big red letters, HOFF STRIKES OUT COBB. And that started me off in baseball.
In 1991 at the age of 100
Chester Cornelius "Red" Hoff
New York Highlanders
Pitcher
Jim Who??
In 1970
Mickey Charles Mantle
New York Yankees
OF
HOF 1974; a.k.a., "The Commerce Comet"
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