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I played six weeks in the summer of 1901 with Rockford in the Three-I League, hit .384, fielded like a blue streak, and before the season was over I was sold to the Chicago Cubs. However, the Milwaukee Brewers in the brand-new American League made me a good offer, so instead of reporting to Chicago I jumped to Milwaukee. See, the American League was an outlaw league in 1901, and Milwaukee was one of the eight teams in the league that very first year. The next year, 1902, the Milwaukee franchise was transferred to St. Louis and we became the original St. Louis Browns. So not only did I play in the American League in the very first year of its existence, but I'm also a charter member of two of the teams in that league. Neither one of which exists any longer, a fact for which I assure you I can in no way be held responsible.
Detroit Tigers
OF
a.k.a. "Kangaroo"
Ed Walsh, seemed like I was batting against that guy every other day. Great big, strong, good-looking fellow. He threw a spitball -- I think that ball disintegrated on the way to the plate and the catcher put it back together again. I swear, when it went past the plate it was just the spit went by.
Samuel Earl "Sam" Crawford
Detroit Tigers
OF
HOF 1957; a.k.a. "Wahoo Sam"
I saw it all happen, from beginning to end. But sometimes I still can't believe what I saw: this nineteen-year-old kid, crude, poorly educated, only lightly brushed by the social veneer we call civilization, gradually transformed into the idol of American youth and the symbol of baseball the world over -- a man loved by more people and with an intensity of feeling that perhaps has never been equaled before or since. I saw a man transformed from a human being into something pretty close to a god. If somebody had predicted that back on the Boston Red Sox in 1914, he would have been thrown into a lunatic asylum.
Harry Bartholomew Hooper
Boston Red Sox
OF
Hall of Fame, 1971
It’s an award I hope I never win again.
Adam Troy Dunn
Washington Nationals
OF
That's a clown question, bro.
6/2/2012
Bryce Aron Max Harper
Washington Nationals
OF
Contributed by: Rich Bohn
Hell, if I'd known 40–40 was going to be a big deal, I'd have done it every year!
Mickey Charles Mantle
New York Yankees
OF
HOF 1974; a.k.a., "The Commerce Comet"
If you have a bad day in baseball, and start thinking about it, you will have ten more.
Chicago Cubs
OF
In football I was a running back, so in the NFL my career would have probably lasted six or seven years and in baseball I ended up playing 23 years. In baseball you can play a long time so I think it's better when you think of it in that way.
Timothy "Tim" Raines
Montreal Expos
OF
HOF 2017; a.k.a., "Rock"
You hear pitching coaches talking about your rookies and they'll say, "This guy is going to be a real good middle-innings pitcher."... What it really means is you never get that fourth at-bat against a great pitcher. I used to have to face Jim Palmer in maybe three or four games a year, and the first two or three at-bats against him were tough, believe me. But the fourth time up I thought maybe I had a chance. Nowadays, that pitcher is out of the game by then and you're looking at a sinker-baller like (Dan) Quisenberry or a Jay Howell throwing gas. That good last at-bat is gone.
Oakland Athletics
OF
It's a great game, but I feel like a prisoner who's been set free. Baseball to me was more work than play -- in fact it was all work. I was lucky enough to lead the league (in batting) when I was twenty years old, and after that I wanted to lead it every year. I never thought I was any genius, so I gave my life to the game for twenty-five years. It was a constant battle and it wore me out. I must have been in about 30,000 plays and I tried to think about every play and how it should be made. I believed in putting up a mental hazard for the other fellow. Every play was a problem of some sort. That's what I mean by the strain and grind of twenty-five years.
In the early 1930's
Tyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb
Detroit Tigers
OF
HOF 1939
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