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I had been having trouble with my eyes. One day my glasses fogged up while I was pitching, but when I cleaned them and looked at the plate and saw (slugger Jimmie) Foxx clearly, it frightened me so much I never wore them again.

Vernon Louis "Lefty" Gomez
New York Yankees
Pitcher
HOF 1972

Late in the game, I scooped up an ordinary ground ball and threw it over to the pitcher, covering first base. It was the same kind of play I had made several hundred times in my big league career, just a routine play. But (teammates) Bill Dickey, Joe Gordon and the pitcher all got around me, slapped me on the back, and said, "Great going, Lou," and "Nice stop, big boy." They meant it to be kind, but it hurt worse than any bawling out I ever received in baseball. They were saying "great stop" because I had fielded a grounder. I decided then and there, I would ask (Manager Joe) McCarthy to take me out of the lineup.

A couple weeks after he played his last game

May 1939
Henry Louis "Lou" Gehrig
New York Yankees
First Base
HOF 1939; a.k.a. "The Iron Horse"

In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer.

Having played for the Yankees for two years, prior to the 1938 season when he sought a $40,000 contract (up from $15,000 in 1937) and manager Ed Barrow advised him that Lou Gehrig only made $43,000 after thirteen seasons

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

Baseball didn't really get into my blood until I knocked off that hitting streak. Getting a daily hit became more important to me than eating, drinking or sleeping.

On his Pacific Coast League record 61-game hitting streak from May 27 to July 25, 1933, with the San Francisco Seals in his first full professional season

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

Well, the fella I got on there is hitting pretty good and I know he can make that throw, and if he don't make it that other fella I got coming has shown me a lot, and if he can't I have my guy and I know what he can do. On the other hand, the guy's not around now. And, well, this guy may be able to do it against left-handers if my guy ain't strong enough. I know one of my guys is gonna do it.

When asked in spring training who his third baseman was going to be once the season started

Charles Dillon "Casey" Stengel
New York Yankees
Manager
HOF 1966

Well, I made up my mind, but I made it up both ways.

When asked at the end of the 1960 season if he would quit if his Yankees would be beaten by Pittsburgh in the World Series

Charles Dillon "Casey" Stengel
New York Yankees
Manager
HOF 1966

I’m something like the old soak who never knew whether his wife told him to take one drink and come home at 12, or take 12 and come home at one.

When asked about his nickname "Goofy"

Vernon Louis "Lefty" Gomez
New York Yankees
Pitcher
HOF 1972

Only triple I ever got.

On his 1980 triple bypass surgery

Vernon Louis "Lefty" Gomez
New York Yankees
Pitcher
HOF 1972

I don't quite know how to put it, but what I'm trying to tell you is that the first time I saw Mantle I knew how Paul Krichell felt when he first saw Lou Gehrig. He knew that as a scout he'd never have another moment like it.

Tom Greenwade
New York Yankees
Scout

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"

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