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This guy's pitching like he's double-parked outside the facility here.

Describing White Sox pitcher Mark Buehrle in a game that took less than two hours to complete, doing radio play-by-play and echoing an old Vin Scully comment regarding Bob Gibson's pitching style

Edward Joseph "Ed" Farmer
Chicago White Sox
Pitcher

I never saw a ball hit so hard before or since. It's probably still going.

When pitching for Pittsburgh in 1935 against Babe Ruth who was then with the Braves, describing the home run he gave up, Ruth's last career dinger, which sailed over the roof of Forbes Field

Guy Terrell Bush
Chicago Cubs
Pitcher

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

Argyin' with an umparr is like argyin' with a stump. Maybe you city folks don't know what a stump is. Well, it's somethin' a tree has been cut off of.

Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean
St. Louis Cardinals
Pitcher
HOF 1953

I can still throw it in the 70s. And I can throw it in the 80s if I don't want to comb my hair for a week.

At age 66 when asked how hard he could throw

Robert William Andrew "Bob" Feller
Cleveland Indians
Pitcher
HOF 1962; a.k.a. "Rapid Robert"

I kind of look at it like an odometer. It just kind of rolls over. So now it's at one year instead of 101.

Upon the Cubs being mathematically eliminated from post-season contention, making it official that they'll go 101 years without a World Series title

09/30/2009
Ryan Dempster
Chicago Cubs
Pitcher

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 lost it in the sun.

Asserting how he had misplayed Vic Raschi's grounder during a 1952 World Series game

William "Billy" Loes
Baltimore Orioles
Pitcher

Who's gonna straighten out 2500 ball games in my head? How many cow pastures you played on, Satchel? they wanna know. How many bus rides you took? Who put the spike scars on your shinbone? Why is your feet flat? Who was it offered you $50 to pitch a triple-header that time? Man, the past is a long and twisty road.

As he was finishing up his major league career, said about all the questioning that came his way

Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige
Kansas City Monarchs
Pitcher
HOF 1971

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