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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"
Years ago it was different. In today's world, for whatever reason, pitchers don't shake off catchers a whole lot. I like to see a pitcher who has a good enough understanding and feeling for the game that he knows what pitches he wants to throw in which situations....that no matter what the catcher puts down, it doesn't mean anything to you because you know what you want to do.
Lawrence Lee "Larry" Rothschild
Chicago Cubs
Pitching Coach
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
My focus at the plate is trying to get on base. A lot of people say they're trying to get a hit. I'm just trying to get on base. I'm going to make the pitcher throw me three strikes. If I get the first strike and it's a good one and that's what I want, I'll hit that one. For the most part, I want to make a pitcher work and I want to get a strike to hit. If I swing at strikes, I'll be successful.
Chicago Cubs
OF
He was a good umpire if you didn't tell him so too often.
John Joseph "Johnny" Evers
Chicago Cubs
2B
HOF 1947
I don't know. I've never done it any other way.
Mordecai Peter Centennial "Three Fingers" Brown
Chicago Cubs
Pitcher
HOF 1949
I never saw a ball hit so hard before or since. It's probably still going.
Guy Terrell Bush
Chicago Cubs
Pitcher
I kind of look at it like an odometer. It just kind of rolls over. So now it's at one year instead of 101.
09/30/2009
Ryan Dempster
Chicago Cubs
Pitcher
The number of times a catcher is injured in a season is surprising. At one time in 1909, for example, George Gibson of the Pittsburgh Pirates had black and blue marks imprinted by nineteen foul tips upon his body, a damaged hand, a bruise on his hip six inches square where a thrown bat had struck, and three spike cuts. Yet he had not missed a game and was congratulating himself on his "luck."
John Joseph "Johnny" Evers
Chicago Cubs
2B
HOF 1947
I'll have to get nervous all over again.
April 10, 1959
Robert Carl "Bob" Anderson
Chicago Cubs
Pitcher
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