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In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer.

Having played for the Yankees for two years, prior to the 1938 season when he sought a $40,000 contract (up from $15,000 in 1937) and manager Ed Barrow advised him that Lou Gehrig only made $43,000 after thirteen seasons

Joseph Paul "Joe" DiMaggio
New York Yankees
OF
HOF 1955; a.k.a. "Joltin' Joe"

I came home and told my mother about the money, and she said that was fine. "Who will you play for?" "Uh, the Texas Liquor House." If I had said Murder, Inc., I wouldn't have gotten a quicker refusal.

Receiving his first offer to play baseball for money, from a semi-pro team sponsored by the Texas Liquor House, and presenting it to his mother, a missionary for the Salvation Army

Theodore Samuel "Ted" Williams
Boston Red Sox
OF
HOF 1966

Baseball didn't really get into my blood until I knocked off that hitting streak. Getting a daily hit became more important to me than eating, drinking or sleeping.

On his Pacific Coast League record 61-game hitting streak from May 27 to July 25, 1933, with the San Francisco Seals in his first full professional season

Joseph Paul "Joe" DiMaggio
New York Yankees
OF
HOF 1955; a.k.a. "Joltin' Joe"

The only guy to make eight outs in seven at-bats and finally get a standing ovation for it.

In a doubleheader against the Red Sox striking out a record six consecutive times, then grounding into a double play to end his strikeout streak

July 9, 1965
Frank Oliver Howard
Washington Senators
OF
a.k.a., "The Capital Punisher"

As for there being anything difficult about the catch, though, the answer is there wasn't. Any ball you go a long way for is exciting to the fans in the stands, because they're not looking at you when you get your jump on it -- they're looking at the hitter. But I'd gotten the good jump, and I had running room, and the ball stayed up for me. I didn't have to pick it off the grass, I didn't have to avoid another fielder, I didn't have to crash the wall, I didn't have to jump in the air, I didn't have to gauge the wind -- there was none -- or some eccentric thing the ball itself did -- it didn't rise, fall, curve, swerve, or bend too much. I doubt there's a day goes by in the big leagues but some outfielder doesn't make a more difficult play than I did on that Wertz ball.

Reflecting on "The Catch" when he fielded the fly ball to center field hit by Vic Wertz in Game 1 of the 1954 World Series

Willie Howard Mays
San Francisco Giants
OF
HOF 1979; a.k.a. "Say Hey Kid"

To get a better piece of chicken, you'd have to be a rooster.

The slogan he came up with, although it was never used, for his fried chicken franchise in 1968

Mickey Charles Mantle
New York Yankees
OF
HOF 1974

Either he throws the fastest ball I've ever seen, or I'm going blind.

On Sandy Koufax

Don Richard "Richie" Ashburn
New York Mets
OF
HOF 1995

Everybody got dressed to the nines to go to the ball game, not like today, when people dress like they're going to rake leaves.

Comparing modern baseball fans with those of the 1930's

Charles Augustus "Charlie" Biot, Jr.
Newark Eagles
OF
Negro National League

I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump all the time.

After the 1932 World Series and playing in Chicago's Wrigley Field

George Herman "Babe" Ruth
New York Yankees
OF
HOF 1936

Now this is over thirty years later and the guy said he was that cab driver. He apologized and he was serious. I felt awful. He might have been spending his whole life thinking he had jinxed me, but I told him he hadn't. My number was up.

Recalling the conversation he'd had in the 1970's with the cab driver who took him to the ballgame on 7/17/1941 in which his record 56-game hitting streak came to an end; during that cab ride the driver told him he thought the streak would end that day

Joseph Paul "Joe" DiMaggio
New York Yankees
OF
HOF 1955; a.k.a. "Joltin' Joe"

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