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The only guy to make eight outs in seven at-bats and finally get a standing ovation for it.

In a doubleheader against the Red Sox striking out a record six consecutive times, then grounding into a double play to end his strikeout streak

July 9, 1965
Frank Oliver Howard
Washington Senators
OF
a.k.a., "The Capital Punisher"

As for there being anything difficult about the catch, though, the answer is there wasn't. Any ball you go a long way for is exciting to the fans in the stands, because they're not looking at you when you get your jump on it -- they're looking at the hitter. But I'd gotten the good jump, and I had running room, and the ball stayed up for me. I didn't have to pick it off the grass, I didn't have to avoid another fielder, I didn't have to crash the wall, I didn't have to jump in the air, I didn't have to gauge the wind -- there was none -- or some eccentric thing the ball itself did -- it didn't rise, fall, curve, swerve, or bend too much. I doubt there's a day goes by in the big leagues but some outfielder doesn't make a more difficult play than I did on that Wertz ball.

Reflecting on "The Catch" when he fielded the fly ball to center field hit by Vic Wertz in Game 1 of the 1954 World Series

Willie Howard Mays
San Francisco Giants
OF
HOF 1979; a.k.a. "Say Hey Kid"

To get a better piece of chicken, you'd have to be a rooster.

The slogan he came up with, although it was never used, for his fried chicken franchise in 1968

Mickey Charles Mantle
New York Yankees
OF
HOF 1974; a.k.a., "The Commerce Comet"

Either he throws the fastest ball I've ever seen, or I'm going blind.

On Sandy Koufax

Don Richard "Richie" Ashburn
New York Mets
OF
HOF 1995

Everybody got dressed to the nines to go to the ball game, not like today, when people dress like they're going to rake leaves.

Comparing modern baseball fans with those of the 1930's

Charles Augustus "Charlie" Biot, Jr.
Newark Eagles
OF
Negro National League

I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump all the time.

After the 1932 World Series and playing in Chicago's Wrigley Field

George Herman "Babe" Ruth
New York Yankees
OF
HOF 1936

Now this is over thirty years later, and the guy said he was that cab driver. He apologized and he was serious. I felt awful. He might have been spending his whole life thinking he had jinxed me, but I told him he hadn't. My number was up.

Recalling the conversation he'd had in the 1970's with the cab driver who took him to the ballgame on 7/17/1941 in which his record 56-game hitting streak came to an end -- during that cab ride, the driver told him he thought the streak would end that day

Joseph Paul "Joe" DiMaggio
New York Yankees
OF
HOF 1955; a.k.a. "Joltin' Joe"

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.

David Jefferson "Davy" Jones
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.

On White Sox Hall of Fame pitcher Ed Walsh

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.

Speaking of his young Red Sox teammate, Babe Ruth

Harry Bartholomew Hooper
Boston Red Sox
OF
Hall of Fame, 1971

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