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Our fans never booed us. They wouldn't dare -- we outnumbered 'em.

Ned Franklin Garver
St. Louis Browns
Pitcher

That was a poor excuse for a ball club at Rock Hill. They were buying players for as little as $100 when you couldn't get a good batboy for that. We had a third baseman whose arm was so bad he would field a ground ball and toss it to the pitcher for a relay to first. He was hitting .250 and was, outside of me, our top hitter.

Reflecting on his tenure in the Carolina League

Walter Kirby Higbe
Brooklyn Dodgers
Pitcher

People are reading "War And Peace" in between pitches.

Doing radio play-by-play, describing the pace of Cleveland Indians pitcher Rafael Betancourt

September 28, 2008
Edward Joseph "Ed" Farmer
Chicago White Sox
Pitcher

Charleston could hit that ball a mile. He didn’t have a weakness. When he came up, we just threw it and hoped like hell he wouldn’t get a hold of one and send it out of the park.

On the Hall Of Fame slugger Oscar Charleston of the Negro Leagues

Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean
St. Louis Cardinals
Pitcher
HOF 1953

Sure, he was old and had a big waistline, but that didn't make any difference. We were on the same field as Babe Ruth.

The National League's starting pitcher reflecting back on playing in MLB's first All-Star Game in 1933

William Anthony "Bill" Hallahan
St. Louis Cardinals
Pitcher

How do you say "adios" in Spanish?

Clay Palmer "Hawk" Carroll
Cincinnati Reds
Pitcher
Contributed by: Rich Bohn

It's funny. The bullpen is a closed environment, but I get a sense of freedom there that I don't get in the dugout or clubhouse. I guess I just like being locked in a closet, taking verbal abuse from a lot of hostile people.

Daniel Raymond "Dan" Quisenberry
Kansas City Royals
Pitcher
a.k.a. "Quiz", "Q"

What you did, any one-armed pitcher could do.

To his teammate, pitcher Charley Sweeney, after Sweeney struck out 19 in a game against champion Boston, and when a one-armed pitcher named Hugh Daily of the Union Association duplicated the feat in a game shortly thereafter

June 1884
Charles Gardner "Old Hoss" Radbourn
Providence Grays
Pitcher
HOF 1939

I don't know. I've never done it any other way.

When the Hall-Of-Famer was asked whether missing a finger on his throwing hand made it any harder to pitch successfully

Mordecai Peter Centennial "Three Fingers" Brown
Chicago Cubs
Pitcher
HOF 1949

There was buried in Ruth humanitarianism beyond belief, an intelligence he was never given credit for, a childish desire to be over-virile, living up to credits given his home-run power -- and yet a need for intimate affection and respect, and a feverish desire to play baseball, perform, act and live a life he didn't and couldn't take time to understand.

On friend, teammate, and legend, Babe Ruth

Waite Charles Hoyt
New York Yankees
Pitcher
HOF 1969

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