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We'll keep Flick. Maybe he isn't quite a good a batter as Cobb, but he's much nicer to have on the team.

When Detroit manager Hughie Jennings proposed getting rid of Ty Cobb in a trade with Cleveland for Elmer Flick

Early 1907
Charles Somers
Cleveland Naps
Owner

Reggie, you know you're in a slump and you need help. I'm going to tell you what your problems are. Your big problem is -- you're not going to like this, Reggie -- but you think you're God. Reggie, you're all wrong. I'm God.

To his right fielder with the oversized ego, Reggie Jackson

Charlie Finley
Oakland Athletics
Owner

This losing streak is bad for the fans, no doubt, but look at it this way -- we're making people happy in other cities.

Ted Turner
Atlanta Braves
Owner

To compare baseball with other games is to say the Hope Diamond is a nice chunk of carbon.

William Louis "Bill" Veeck
Cleveland Indians
Owner
HOF 1991

Dot poy can rrrrun like a canteloupe.

With his heavy German accent and oft-misinterpreted English, describing one of his young ballplayers noted for his base stealing

In 1883
Christian Friedrich Wilhelm "Chris" von der Ahe
St. Louis Browns
Owner

I love the game dearly and wanted it to go back to the straw hat and beer days when 250 towns had minor league teams and most of them were not supported by a major league franchise. I wanted to show we could start $50,000 behind (organized baseball) and survive. It's the American dream. It's a matter of opportunity, not the almighty dollar.

On establishing the independent Portland Mavericks, unaffiliated with a MLB parent club in the Class A Northwest League, when the Class AAA Pacific Coast League reorganized itself and left Portland without a team for five years in the 1970's

Neil Oliver "Bing" Russell
Portland Mavericks
Owner

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