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I'm a firm believer in going out and playing my hardest. I'm doing my job. As long as I am doing my best, I shouldn't take a bow because I am doing my job.

Turk Wendell
New York Mets
Pitcher

You definitely sometimes run into an attitude in the league about a woman playing, but it's only in the minors that I've heard 6,329 people (a sellout crowd in St. Paul) chanting my name and cheering for me when I take the mound. I hate to say it, but after being hassled for so long, it gives me chicken skin to hear the PA in every city play Roy Orbison's "Pretty Woman" or the Doors' "Love Her Madly" every time I run out of the bullpen to pitch.

On being the first woman to play in an integrated men's professional baseball league

Ila Jane Borders
St. Paul Saints
Pitcher
Northern League

My major league debut came at old Busch Stadium on Grand Avenue in St. Louis against the Pittsburgh Pirates. The first pitch I threw was to third baseman Bob Bailey. It was a fastball, low and away. He ripped it for a home run down the left field line. I said, "Damn, that was a pretty good pitch."

Steven Norman "Steve" Carlton
Philadelphia Phillies
Pitcher
HOF 1994

Looks like it worked. I doubt that we'll get it back now. I think they gave it away to charity or something.

On the removal of the clubhouse pingpong table by management after which the Indians went on to win 17 of their next 22 home games

Paul Shuey
Cleveland Indians
Pitcher

I notice the mounted police are circling the field along with German shepherds to keep the fans from storming the diamond. All of a sudden, one of the horses makes a "deposit" on the turf and I thought, "If I don't get Wilson out, that's what I'll be in this town." Then I noticed one of the dogs and thought, "K-9 Corps -- that's what I need, a K in the 9th!"

While pitching for Philadelphia in 1980, on striking out Willie Wilson of Kansas City in Game 6 of the World Series to give the first World Championship to the Phillies

Frank Edwin "Tug" McGraw
New York Mets
Pitcher

Ain't no doubt I could win pitchin' relief every day. Name off one of you guys can hit three deliveries like I throw, overhand, sidearm and underhand.

As told to Red Smith

Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige
Kansas City Monarchs
Pitcher
HOF 1971

Contributed by: Jane Richard

I'm not a home run pitcher, I'm a singles pitcher.

Michael Anthony Smith
Cincinnati Reds
Pitcher

Greaseball, greaseball, greaseball. That's all I throw him and he still hits them. He's the only player in baseball who consistently hits my grease. He sees the ball so well, I guess he can pick out the dry side.

Gaylord Jackson Perry
San Francisco Giants
Pitcher
HOF 1991

I was talking to my dad about it and he said, 'I've done that many times.' I said it must be something that runs in the family.

Upon returning from the DL with lower back strain, stubbing his foot and breaking two toes

Scott Williamson
Cincinnati Reds
Pitcher

If I'd be five inches off center, why, that'd still be a strike, but he'd give me hell. Today I can lay a cigaret paper down and pitch across it seven times out of eight. Never been sore but once down in Mexico in 1937. Like Joe Louis, only one arm like this comes along in fifty years.

As told to Red Smith, who wrote, "His first manager, Bill Blakewell, taught him control, making him warm up with a baseball as his target instead of a plate."

Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige
Kansas City Monarchs
Pitcher
HOF 1971

Red Smith on Baseball

Contributed by: Jane Richard

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