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You can't just tell some guy he has to throw a slider. That's what they did to me. I had a helluva overhand curve when I first came up and they told me I had to throw a slider. So I worked on the slider until I lost my overhand curve. That taught me never to take a young pitcher and force him to come up with a new pitch. I give them their own head.

James Philip "Jim" Owens
Houston Astros
Pitching Coach

The Alzheimer's Game.

His reference to Oldtimer's Game

Norman Calvin "Norm" Miller
Houston Astros
OF

No, I got it from my dad. If I got it from my mom, I'd be in the Hall of Fame. She let me find my own way. She was more of the mental part -- how to deal with a slump, how to approach the game, how to be a good teammate and how to play the game the proper way. She used to tell me that you can't have a bad day hustling. You can go 0-for-4, make a couple of errors, but if you played the game hard, then you'd still be proud of yourself because those kinds of things happen.

When asked whether he'd gotten his baseball talent from his mom, Helen, who was a star in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League

Casey Todd Candaele
Houston Astros
2B
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