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If anyone knows how to pitch to him, let me know. It seems like he's so locked in right now, he hits almost anything you throw him.

Speaking of San Francisco's Barry Bonds

During the 2001 Season
Ben Davis
San Diego Padres
Catcher

Catchers don't catch high sinkers; batters hit them hard.

James Timothy "Tim" McCarver
St. Louis Cardinals
Catcher

I could hear the ball. I just couldn't see it.

On facing Cleveland pitcher Bob Feller

Richard Benjamin "Rick" Ferrell
Washington Senators
Catcher
HOF 1984

You start and end any discussion of catchers with Jim Hegan. Of all things a catcher has to do -- catch, throw, call a game -- Hegan was the best I ever saw.

On fellow American Leaguer and eventual Indians teammate Jim Hegan

George "Birdie" Tebbetts
Detroit Tigers
Catcher

A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, "Why, oh why, with so many other positions in baseball, did I take up this one?"

William Malcolm "Bill" Dickey
New York Yankees
Catcher
HOF 1954

Seriously, I'm gonna need a glove.

After being advised that he would start the day's ballgame at 3B for the first time in his major league career due to a player injury, and following up his first reply that he'd need a glove in order to do so, to the laughter of his teammates at the breakfast table

April 27, 2005

Christopher Jon "Chris" Widger
Chicago White Sox
Catcher

Satchel -- Satchel Paige!!... Now, THAT mother-(bleep) could PITCH!

With eyes lit up and a big smile, answering an interviewer's question about what it was like to catch for his old batterymate

In 2005 around his 103rd birthday Theodore Roosevelt "Ted Double-Duty" Radcliffe
Kansas City Monarchs
Catcher

Hack really hit 57. He hit one up in the Crosley Field seats so hard it bounced right back. The umpires figured it must have hit the screen. I was in the Reds' bullpen and we didn't say a word.

Describing how Hack Wilson didn't hit 56 home runs in his magnificent 1930 season

Clyde Leroy "Sukey" Sukeforth
Cincinnati Reds
Catcher

Very deceptive. Slower than he looks.

On his own scouting report

Joseph Henry "Joe" Garagiola
St. Louis Cardinals
Catcher

Whatever is going to happen is going to happen when it happens, regardless of what happens.

Michael Eugene "Mike" LaValliere
Pittsburgh Pirates
Catcher

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