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Too much spit.

Why the ball popped out of his glove resulting in a balk

William "Billy" Loes
Baltimore Orioles
Pitcher

Slapping a rattlesnake across the face with the back of your hand is safer than trying to fool Hank Aaron.

Claude Wilson Osteen
Los Angeles Dodgers
Pitcher

My favorite word in English, and I love this word, is "youneverknow."

Joaquin Andujar
St. Louis Cardinals
Pitcher

No, actually I want to give it away. If the hitters know it's coming, I'm hoping they'll change the swings that got them to the big leagues.

When asked if he tried to disguise his knuckleball

Daniel Raymond "Dan" Quisenberry
Kansas City Royals
Pitcher
a.k.a. "Quiz", "Q"

Dr. Livingood don't know nothing about arms and muscles. He's a skin doctor. He's one of them gynecologists.

On Tigers team physician Dr. Clarence Livingood

Mark Steven "The Bird" Fidrych
Detroit Tigers
Pitcher

Davey was the only guy I know who went to John Hopkins University and played in the major leagues. When we won the World Series in 1970, he took a television at cost instead of a World Series ring. He said, "I don't have a television." We're in an era now where everyone talks about "The ring. The ring." This was the only one he would have gotten. But he was just more practical. Davey was the ninth guy on a nine-man staff, happy to do whatever (manager) Earl (Weaver) asked. Nowadays the money is so excessive. Davey played the game because he loved to play. To me, that's what the game is all about.

On teammate and roommate Dave Leonhard (RHP)

James Alvin "Jim" Palmer
Baltimore Orioles
Pitcher
HOF 1990


Interviewer: Where did you learn to pitch?

MARICHAL: In the army.

Interviewer: Oh, what rank were you?

MARICHAL: No rank, just play baseball in army.

Interviewer: You had a good coach then?

MARICHAL: No coach. I always knew how to pitch.

Interviewer: Then, there must be ballplayers in your family -- your father, perhaps?

MARICHAL: No father. Two brothers. They can't play.

Interviewer: Then baseball must be a big game in your family.

MARICHAL: Only me. I teach myself.


An example of the mystery that always surrounded how the smiling righthander from the Dominican Republic acquired his advanced baseball knowledge

Juan Antonio Marichal
San Francisco Giants
Pitcher
HOF 1983; a.k.a. "The Dominican Dandy"

Joe Jackson hit the ball harder than any man that ever played in the big leagues, and I don't except Babe Ruth.

On former teammate "Shoeless" Joe Jackson

Edward Augustine "Big Ed" Walsh
Chicago White Sox
Pitcher

Ya gotta believe!

In 1973 when the Mets won their second NL pennant

Frank Edwin "Tug" McGraw
New York Mets
Pitcher

The score is nothing to nothing and nobody's winning.

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

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