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197 quotes found searching on Position: OF Hell, I don't ever know if I'm going to get two hits. What I do know is that if I don't get 'em today, I'm sure going to get 'em tomorrow.Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron The best 20 seconds in baseball is running around those bases after getting one over the fence.San Francisco Giants 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" 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" It was 1948. Satchel had a very, very good fastball. But he threw me a little breaking ball, just to see what I could do, and I hit it off the top of the fence and I got a double. When I got to second, Satchel told the third baseman, "Let me know when that little boy comes back up." Three innings later, I go to kneel down in the on-deck circle, and I hear the third baseman say, "There he is." Satch looked at the third baseman, and then he looked at me. I walk halfway to home plate and he says, "Little boy..." I say, "Yes, sir?" because Satch was much older than me, so I was trying to show respect. He walked halfway to home plate and said, "Little boy, I'm not going to trick you. I'm going to throw you three fastballs and you're going to go sit down." And I'm saying in my mind, "I don't think so." If he threw me three of the same pitch, I'm going to hit it somewhere. He threw me two fastballs and I just swung; swung right through it. And the third ball he threw, and I tell people this all the time, he threw the ball and then he started walking. And he says, "Go sit down." This is while the ball was in the air. He was just a magnificent pitcher.Willie Howard Mays Jim Who??In 1970 When I got back to the clubhouse, I just sat down on my stool and held my head in my hands, like I was going to start crying. I heard somebody come up to me, and it was little Timmy Berra, Yogi’s boy, standing there next to me. He tapped me on the knee, nice and soft, and I figured he was going to say something nice to me, you know, like, “You keep hanging in there,” or something like that, but all he did was look at me, and then he said in his little kid’s voice, “You stink.”During the 1950’s previous 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Search for quotes here! You can put in multiple words, or if you want to search on a particular phrase, "wrap it in quotes". |
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