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211 quotes found searching on Position: OF
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mickey Charles Mantle
New York Yankees
OF
HOF 1974; a.k.a., "The Commerce Comet"
Either he throws the fastest ball I've ever seen, or I'm going blind.
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.
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.
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.
Joseph Paul "Joe" DiMaggio
New York Yankees
OF
HOF 1955; a.k.a. "Joltin' Joe"
I played six weeks in the summer of 1901 with Rockford in the Three-I League, hit .384, fielded like a blue streak, and before the season was over I was sold to the Chicago Cubs. However, the Milwaukee Brewers in the brand-new American League made me a good offer, so instead of reporting to Chicago I jumped to Milwaukee. See, the American League was an outlaw league in 1901, and Milwaukee was one of the eight teams in the league that very first year. The next year, 1902, the Milwaukee franchise was transferred to St. Louis and we became the original St. Louis Browns. So not only did I play in the American League in the very first year of its existence, but I'm also a charter member of two of the teams in that league. Neither one of which exists any longer, a fact for which I assure you I can in no way be held responsible.
Detroit Tigers
OF
a.k.a. "Kangaroo"
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