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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
San Francisco Giants
OF
HOF 1979; a.k.a. "Say Hey Kid"
Jim Who??
In 1970
Mickey Charles Mantle
New York Yankees
OF
HOF 1974; a.k.a., "The Commerce Comet"
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
Mickey Charles Mantle
New York Yankees
OF
HOF 1974; a.k.a., "The Commerce Comet"
This is a great honor... The Hall of Fame is something different. But when an organization puts up a statue of you in their stadium forever. ... You might be right. That's better than the Hall of Fame. That's showing my family we represented the White Sox well.
Harold Douglas Baines
Chicago White Sox
OF
HOF 2019
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.
New York Yankees
OF
HOF 1936
My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.
Milwaukee Braves
OF
HOF 1982
You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to run forward! Bend! Scoop up the ball! Peg it to first! Then your body says, “Who me?”
New York Yankees
OF
HOF 1955; a.k.a. "Joltin' Joe"
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