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36 quotes found searching on Position: SS
MVP, you could have picked a name out of a hat...we have a group of MVPs. You don't rely on one guy. You have to get contributions from everyone.
Derek Sanderson Jeter
New York Yankees
SS
Hank Aaron and Willie Mays and I talk about it all the time. Sammy is the most prolific power hitter we have ever seen. His balance and power and technique and ability to hit the ball to all fields...he is an amazing hitter.
Ernest "Ernie" Banks
Chicago Cubs
SS
HOF 1977; a.k.a. "Mr. Cub"
Keep it. I don't want it.
Raymond Johnson "Ray" Chapman
Cleveland Indians
SS
Y'know everybody says I have good hands and everything. But the thing that makes a good shortstop is the footwork involved. If you have good footwork, if you can get to the ball, you can set up and get your body out of the way so you can make the throw, I think that's the most important thing.
Lawrence Robert "Larry" Bowa
Philadelphia Phillies
SS
I was just trying to hit a line drive; I guess I made a mistake.
Osborne Earl "Ozzie" Smith
St.. Louis Cardinals
SS
HOF 2002
Clemente hit a screaming line drive and I got my glove up just as the ball hit the left field wall.
Jimmy Wynn
Houston Colt .45's
SS
I started fouling off his pitches. I took a pitch every now and then. Pretty soon, after 24 fouls, old Red could hardly lift his arm and I walked. That's when they took him out of the game and he cussed me all the way to the dugout.
Lucius Benjamin "Luke" Appling
Chicago White Sox
SS
HOF 1964
I've always been little, even back when I was little.
David "Eck" Eckstein
Anaheim Angels
SS
A teacher and a leader, he was all of that and more. He signed me to my first contract with the Cubs, and then he walked me into the Hall of Fame. He was the most positive person that I have ever been around. I transferred that into my life. What he did with his mind and his heart and his spirit...he wanted to bridge the gap of black baseball players playing in the major leagues. He scouted me and Lou Brock, Billy Williams, and just about every black player who played baseball back then. He scouted Pumpsie Green, who was the first black player for the Boston Red Sox, and Elston Howard, who was the first black player for the Yankees. He saw them and he identified their talent. He helped build my confidence so I would know what to do and what to say and where to go -- all of that. Then when he came to the Cubs as a coach, I was changing from shortstop to first base and he helped me make that transition. It was almost like he was put on this earth just for me. The travesty was that Buck O'Neil was not elected to baseball's Hall of Fame. All of those people whose lives he touched and played with...it is a travesty. It really hurt my heart. It hurt me. I wish I could surrender my election to baseball's Hall of Fame to him, because I always felt that he deserved it more than I did.
Ernest "Ernie" Banks
Chicago Cubs
SS
HOF 1977; a.k.a. "Mr. Cub"
It was a tough first 10,000 wins. I hope the next 10,000 are easier.
April 23, 2008
Ryan Stewart Theriot
Chicago Cubs
SS
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