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18 quotes found searching on Location: Washington
There is a catcher that any big league club would love. His name is Gibson...he can do everything. He hits the ball a mile. And he catches so easy he might as well be in a rocking chair. Throws like a rifle. Too bad this Gibson is a colored fellow.
Walter Perry "Big Train" Johnson
Washington Senators
Pitcher
HOF 1936
This boy throws so fast you can't see 'em, and he knows where he is throwing, because if he didn't, there would be dead bodies all over Idaho.
Note: There is currently some debate on the attribution of this quote. Joe "Mickie" Shea, pitcher - second baseman in the California league, is perhaps the originator.
Joseph D. "Joe" Cantillion
Washington Senators
Manager
Fans like home runs. And we have assembled a pitching staff to please our fans.
Washington Senators
Owner
HOF 1947
You can shake a dozen glove men out of a tree, but the bat separates the men from the boys.
Washington Senators
1B
There's a certain amount of luck, and a certain amount of talent. If you put it all together, you can have a big year like I had in '46 (batting .353). When you see the ball dropping just inside the foul lines instead of just outside them, or when you see fielders just missing balls instead of just catching them, then you know that it's luck that helps your average.
Washington Senators
1B
The Hall (of Fame) has lost some of its meaning and much of its glory in recent years. (It) should be reserved strictly for the best, for the ultra-ultra. To be a credit to the game of baseball, a man need not have got off a record number of wisecracks or assembled a record number of feature stories. There are a lot of colorful palookas. Today many of the so-called sluggers couldn't steal a base if they were alone in the park. They are not expected to throw too well or run too fast as long as they can belt the ball out of the park when their one moment of usefulness arrives. The idea of being a team member sometimes is lost completely.
Joseph Ignatius "Joe" Judge
Washington Senators
1B
a.k.a. "The Other Washington Monument"
I could hear the ball. I just couldn't see it.
Richard Benjamin "Rick" Ferrell
Washington Senators
Catcher
HOF 1984
It's not the Yankees I'm ag'in'. It's just the idea of preserving a monopoly by means of money. If we let those rich men run things the way that only they can afford to run them, what's going to become of baseball? You want John D. Rockerfeller to come into baseball and win the pennant every year?
Clark Calvin Griffith
Washington Senators
Owner
HOF 1947
Wrigley Field, I love it. They're going to throw beer on you when you get back to the outfield anyway, so you might as well do something.
Adam Troy Dunn
Washington Nationals
OF
3/1/09 Washington Post
Contributed by: Rich Bohn
The only guy to make eight outs in seven at-bats and finally get a standing ovation for it.
July 9, 1965
Frank Oliver Howard
Washington Senators
OF
a.k.a., "The Capital Punisher"
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