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49 quotes found searching on Position: 3B
Everybody says (Rod) Carew was the best left-handed (A.L.) hitter in the 1960's and '70's. But (Tony) Oliva could hit like Carew and he did it with power.
Chicago White Sox
3B
Check all the records from 1958 to 1970 and we won a hell of a lot of ball games. We won 92 or 93 games a year, but somebody always won more. It seems that some ball club was having a great year and we couldn't get over the hump. At times, I think we didn't manufacture runs like we should have. We kind of lived and died by the home run. We didn't always play good situational baseball. By that I mean moving the runners along, hit and run, the little things which win ballgames.
San Francisco Giants
3B
When you're in your first and second year, it's not that you don't want to win. But you're a rookie. If you lose a ballgame, you're in the major leagues. You're living a dream, living a life you always wanted to live. It's very overwhelming at times, and you're just happy to be here. When you've been through that for three or four years, it's not that you take things for granted, but you understand this is part of your life. It's not all of your life, but it's part of it, and that's what you have to deal with. You begin to understand the importance of the game and the importance of winning. You begin to understand what it takes to win when you're at the ballpark and the importance of letting it go when you leave.
Philadelphia Phillies
3B
I don't mind hitting sixth. It's the RBI spot.
Vinny Castilla
Tampa Bay Devil Rays
3B
It's like (batting coach) Charley Lau used to tell us, used to tell me: "You look very hitterish up there. You look hitterish, you look like you're going to hit the ball hard."
Kansas City Royals
3B
HOF 1999
I look at leadership as a way to maybe be prepared for the other side of baseball, when I'm done playing and can pass on what I've learned to young players coming up. But right now there is nothing that compares to the feeling of hitting a baseball.
Houston Astros
3B
You're not always going to be perfect, but I always try to be. If making an error doesn't make you mad, what's the point? Why put all the work in?
Anaheim Angels
3B
You're trying your damndest, you strike out and they boo you. I act like it doesn't bother me, like I don't hear anything the fans say, but the truth is I hear every word of it and it kills me.
Philadelphia Phillies
3B
HOF 1995
You've got these smaller ballparks. Give me four more Wrigley Fields to hit in when I played and see what kind of numbers I would have put up. How many of the balls that I hit to the warning track would've been in six rows deep at Coors Field? At my peak I probably averaged about 38 homers a season. If I played today I'd probably average about 53. So if you weigh one of my old homers it might be equal to about 1.4 of today's.
Michael Jack "Mike" Schmidt
Philadelphia Phillies
3B
HOF 1995
Look, I was on Rush Street until 4 a.m. too, but it's time to play.
Edwin Lee "Eddie" Mathews
Milwaukee Braves
3B
HOF 1978
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