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Honestly, at one time I thought Babe Ruth was a cartoon character. I really did, I mean, I wasn't born until 1961, and I grew up in Indiana.

Donald Arthur "Don" Mattingly
New York Yankees
First Base

I believe the joy of getting paid as a man to play a boy's game kept me going longer than many other players. Whether I was getting $100 a month in Class D or $100,000 a season in the majors, I never lost the feeling that I had the best way in the country to make a living, meager or plentiful.

Stanley Frank "Stan The Man" Musial
St. Louis Cardinals
First Base
HOF 1969

When my son's friend is my teammate, I figure it's time to retire.

Upon turning 43 when asked why he wasn't going to play one more year, with reference to fellow Cardinal Mike Shannon who played high school baseball with Stan's son

In 1963
Stanley Frank "Stan The Man" Musial
St. Louis Cardinals
First Base
HOF 1969

Hey, that's $100 a second. Where else can you get that kind of work?

After teammates chided him for getting just $300 for appearing for three seconds on The Late Show With David Letterman

Sean "The Mayor" Casey
Cincinnati Reds
First Base

Late in the game, I scooped up an ordinary ground ball and threw it over to the pitcher, covering first base. It was the same kind of play I had made several hundred times in my big league career, just a routine play. But (teammates) Bill Dickey, Joe Gordon and the pitcher all got around me, slapped me on the back, and said, "Great going, Lou," and "Nice stop, big boy." They meant it to be kind, but it hurt worse than any bawling out I ever received in baseball. They were saying "great stop" because I had fielded a grounder. I decided then and there, I would ask (Manager Joe) McCarthy to take me out of the lineup.

A couple weeks after he played his last game

May 1939
Henry Louis "Lou" Gehrig
New York Yankees
First Base
HOF 1939; a.k.a. "The Iron Horse"

I'm not trying to pretend that ballplayers have any altruistic mission in life. Frankly, we play baseball for a living. It's our job. Yet, I do think we accomplish more than just our own selfish purposes. I do feel we contribute to the spirit of the country and its mental attitude towards life.
I can remember the reactions of a sweet little old lady I happend to meet in a St. Louis railroad station. As we got off the train, a lot of people recognized our players and stopped to stare. This lady touched me on the arm and asked if I knew who all these men were that everyone was looking at.
"Why, yes, lady, those are the Yankees," I said. She said, "The Yankees? What do they do?"
I said they played baseball.
"Is that all?" she said, and when I nodded she said, "Tch, tch, they ought to be ashamed of themselves. Big, strong men like that, playing games. They ought to go to work."
Well, maybe she was right. But it seems to me there's all kinds of work in this world. It would be a dull place if everyone was a salesman, a contractor, or a politician. And how dull it would be without the movies, the theater, the swing bands, even without the funny papers.
I think baseball plays an important part in keeping this country out of trouble that it might otherwise be in. When the public is busy discussing pennant races and speculating on who is going to win the World Series, they don't have to work out their natural instincts for excitement by starting a war.
As long as the country can work up such enthusiasm about a game there's no immediate danger of it having much enthusiasm for much less healthy matters.

Henry Louis "Lou" Gehrig
New York Yankees
First Base
HOF 1939; a.k.a. "The Iron Horse"

From "Iron Horse: Lou Gehrig In His Time" by Ray Robinson (1990)

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