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70 quotes found searching on Position: 1B
It was the most stupid thing I've ever heard. It doesn't make any sense. You don't see anybody writing anything about the Maple Leafs not having a black guy or the Raptors having 90 percent black players. It (race) has nothing to do with it. We don't have any kind of problem in the clubhouse and we don't need that shit.
In 2003
Carlos Juan Delgado
Toronto Blue Jays
1B
Well, throwing things onto the field is not my idea of a well-rounded human being.
Steven Patrick "Steve" Garvey
Los Angeles Dodgers
1B
Basically, we're all fastball hitters. If we couldn't hit the fastball, we wouldn't be here. But if you have to look at breaking balls all the time you're only as good as your ability to adjust... When I came up, there was more of that pure challenge from the starting pitchers. (Tom) Seaver threw hard, Jerry Koosman threw hard, Bob Gibson threw, I mean, HARD. Fergie Jenkins threw hard and had that good slider away. Jerry Reuss and Steve Carlton threw hard when they were together on the Cardinals in the seventies. So did (John) Candelaria, when he came along, and that same Pirates team had Terry Forster and Goose Gossage coming out of the bullpen. Hard throwers. The 2-0 breaking ball used to be a special trait of the American League, because they had smaller ballparks, and it's harder to hit the breaking ball out. But now, because of free agency, the National League has a lot of American League pitchers in it, and even with our bigger ballparks the whole pitching staff is saying, "Why don't we do it that way, too, instead of being the hardball league?" It's tougher on hitters every day.
Los Angeles Dodgers
1B
It was easy to figure out Mr. Rickey's thinking about contracts. He had both players and money, and just didn't like to see the two of them mix.
Kevin Joseph Aloysius "Chuck" Connors
Chicago Cubs
1B
One of only 12 NBA & MLB players
Well known for his TV show role in "The Rifleman"
I've never heard a bat louder than his. You hear it going through the strike zone and the sound is unmistakable. It goes vump. That's when he misses.
Kenneth Smith "Ken" Harrelson
Kansas City Athletics
1B
a.k.a., "Hawk"
I waited all day for that change-up and he never threw it. Then I gave up looking for the damn thing and started looking for the fastball, and here it came.
William DeKova "Bill" White
St. Louis Cardinals
1B
Drop a ball from a 20-foot ladder and have me try to hit it, going straight down. Even for the best hitters in the world, that's gonna be tough to do. Now give me a 100-mph fastball -- straight, in the zone -- I'll hit it every time. I may not get a hit, but I'm gonna hit it. But if you do it the other way, that's what a curveball does. A good curveball with a lot of break, it's not necessarily that I don't recognize it, but it's moving so much that it's tougher to square up.
Mark Charles Teixeira
New York Yankees
1B
People say it's a shame he never pitched against the best. But who's to say he didn't?
John Jordan "Buck" O'Neil
Kansas City Monarchs
1B
I got a chance to see Rube Foster manage from the dugout. And Rube Foster had a pipe. And he was giving signals with smoke rings and things like that. This fascinated me. The way he was running the show. He did it all. He was born to be baseball, Rube was. He had an excellent mind and was more or less two innings ahead of everybody else. He devised a system that had never been seen in baseball before. Rube picked all the men to play. He put on all of the plays and he had the type of men that could do just what he wanted them to do. And it was a case of...can you imagine, a ball club with eight or nine Rickey Hendersons? This was the Chicago American Giants in 1911, 1912. Everybody could go to first base in under four seconds, and Rube would score runs without a base hit. If you walked the lead off man, he'd bunt the ball, bunt and run, hit and run, steal home base. It changed the way a pitcher had to pitch.
Kansas City Monarchs
1B
That bed was on fire when I got into it.
In the 1930's
Preston Rudolph "Rudy" York
Detroit Tigers
1B
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