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He was baseball's perfect warrior and baseball's perfect knight.
Ford Christopher Frick
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3rd Commissioner of Baseball, 1951-1965
HOF 1970
I immediately got the feeling I was wrong on the call when every Baltimore guy on the field charged at me with intent to maim.
My dad wanted me to have everything that everybody else had. I think the first thing that he ever bought me was a football. I was very young, and he didn't know a lot about it; he came from the old country. I mean, we tried to pass it and throw it and kick it, we couldn't do it, and it was very discouraging for him, and for me. And almost, we almost quit. Finally we had a nice enough neighbor who came over and put some air in it. What a difference!
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Catcher / Broadcaster
My battles with (Yankees owner George) Steinbrenner were an everyday part of life.
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5th Commissioner of Baseball, 1969-1984
HOF 2008
For some of us, baseball has meant the pleasantest way of making a living that man has discovered. I loved it so, especially in the days before air travel and before night games when baseball was such a leisurely entertainment and covering it such a leisurely occupation. I loved every moment of it, even the weeks of hit and run barnstorming tours home from training camp when, for two weeks or so, home was an open Pullman berth. I'm happy to have had a chance to be a baseball writer, and right now....I'd rather be a moose or a salmon, because when they're stuffed and mounted, they're dead and it doesn't make them so nervous.
In 1977
Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith
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Sports Columnist
I would even like the spitball to come back. The pitchers need help desperately.
After the 1962 season
Ford Christopher Frick
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3rd Commissioner of Baseball, 1951-1965
HOF 1970
I would urge that Baseball in selecting a new commissioner realize that if he is going to be effective, several things have to be so. He's got to be a strong commissioner, strong in several ways. Strong as a personality who will have the necessary courage in the face of relentless problems and pressures to do what is necessary for the good of the game And he must be a strong commissioner in the sense of the powers he is given, the protection his office is given It's all well and good to say, "here's a good man, here's a good man to do the job." But he must have more than that. He must have more than I have had. And if we can achieve the necessary changes, and I think we must -- and I think he must insist on it, incidentally -- then we can so improve the position of the commissioner that he will be able to face the very tough challenges that I have outlined here i the prior part of my remarks. And I think it's vital that he be empowered to face those challenges. A little look at history will take you back to 1921, when a curly-haired old tough-minded federal judge was about to become commissioner. He said I want more than a legal document. He said I want a moral covenant with ownership to steadfastly support the commissioner. I want a moral covenant by which they say, "We will stand behind you come thick or thin regardless of what our individual personal feelings might be about its rightness or wrongness. We have given you a tough job and we will stand behind you and we will support you. There will be no knives in your back."
In 1984
Bowie Kent Kuhn
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5th Commissioner of Baseball, 1969-1984
HOF 2008
Sports is not really a play world. I think it’s the real world. The people we’re writing about in professional sports, they’re suffering and living and dying and loving, and trying to make their way through life just as the bricklayers and politicians are. It is no coincidence that the largest surviving monument of the ancient Greeks and Romans is the Colosseum in Rome, the Yankee Stadium of its time.
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Sports Columnist
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