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When he die it was so big in Puerto Rico people stop everything. Nobody have any more parties for New Year's. Everybody go to the beach to try to find him. Try to find the body or at least something. I was really hurt for his wife. She went down to the beach every day, too, to pray or see what she could do. I think she is still going down there. Clemente is still on the ballclub. His spirit belong here. You know how great he was in the outfield. And he gives his life for somebody he don't know.
Manuel de Jesus (Magan) "Manny" Sanguillen
Pittsburgh Pirates
Catcher
Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner.
Homestead Grays
Catcher
HOF 1972
Give me a new ball. One you can see.
Anthony John "A.J." Pierzynski
Chicago White Sox
Catcher
Hitting is rhythm and if you allow major-league hitters to see only one pitch -- to swing repeatedly through a certain area of the plate -- eventually they'll get to you and begin to hit it, even if it's a great fastball. But anybody who can control and switch off between two first-class pitches will make the hitters start reaching, either in or out, and then the game belongs to the pitcher. Besides all that, Bob had such great stuff and was so intimidating out there that he'd make the batter open up his front shoulder just a fraction too fast, no matter what the count was. The other key to good hitting, of course, is keeping that shoulder -- the left shoulder for a right-handed batter, I mean, and vice-versa -- in place, and the most common flaw is pulling it back. Gibson had guys pulling back that shoulder who normally wouldn't be caught dead doing it. Their ass was in the dugout, as we say.
James Timothy "Tim" McCarver
St. Louis Cardinals
Catcher
The Phillies let Bob Boone go (after the 1981 season) because they said he couldn't throw anymore -- a terrible rap. So he goes over to the Angels and leads the league in throwing out runners and takes the Angels right to the doorstep of the World Series. He's conscientious and always in great shape, and his throwing is only a little part of it. I never could throw well, so I always thought calling a game was the biggest thing. That will never become a noted part of the game, because there are no stats for it, and the fans don't care about it, and most of the scouts don't know a whole lot about it, either. Even today, scouts and some managers will say, "He can really catch" when they mean, "He can really throw". This is real bullshit, because throwing just isn't a very important part of it, when you think about it. Gene Mauch is one of the few managers who really understood and appreciated catching. I always felt some resentment about not being appreciated, but that was balanced out by pitchers who knew what I was doing back there. Some of them didn't appreciate me until the time came when they had to pitch to somebody else.
St. Louis Cardinals
Catcher
The best-kept secret in all of baseball is Steve Garvey's poor pitch selection.
James Timothy "Tim" McCarver
St. Louis Cardinals
Catcher
It's much easier to work a good hitter than a poor hitter. Poor hitters have no idea what you're going to throw to begin with, so why try to outthink them? You go after them with stuff, rather than with pitch selection. But there's beauty in working a good hitter.
St. Louis Cardinals
Catcher
You could at least have worked on me!
Joseph Henry "Joe" Garagiola
St. Louis Cardinals
Catcher
You've got to concentrate on each play, each hitter, each pitch. All this makes the game much slower and much clearer. It breaks it down to its smallest part. If you take the game like that -- one pitch, one hitter, one inning at a time, and then one game at a time -- the next thing you know, you look up and you've won.
Baltimore Orioles
Catcher
a.k.a. "The Dipper"
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