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When Neil Armstrong first set foot on the moon, he and all the space scientists were puzzled by an unidentifiable white object. I knew immediately what it was. That was a home run ball hit off me in 1937 by Jimmie Foxx.

Vernon Louis "Lefty" Gomez
New York Yankees
Pitcher
HOF 1972

Blade (SS Mark Belanger) and Brooksie (3B Brooks Robinson) made me a Hall of Famer.

James Alvin "Jim" Palmer
Baltimore Orioles
Pitcher
HOF 1990

Somebody had to make the decision for me because I wouldn't have done it. I would much rather have left like I've done today than to leave in the middle of the season or getting booed out of the ballpark. I didn't want to taint my career.

In announcing his retirement after pitching in the most games in major league history (1,071) on December 10, 1998

Dennis Lee Eckersley
Boston Red Sox
Pitcher
HOF 2004

The other day they asked me about mandatory drug testing. I said I believed in drug testing a long time ago. All through the '60s I tested everything.

William Francis "Bill" Lee
Boston Red Sox
Pitcher
a.k.a. "Spaceman"

I would have taken the job but I realized I wasn't much of a judge of talent. I once said Stan Musial would never be a hitter, and I also said Bob Lemon would never be a pitcher.

Explaining why he turned down an offer to become a scout after his playing days were over.

John Sigmund "Specs" Podgajny
Philadelphia Phillies
Pitcher

When he took BP everybody would kind of stop what they were doing and watch.

On Mickey Mantle.

James Lee "Jim" Kaat
New York Yankees
Pitcher
a.k.a. "Kitty"

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, and the lesson afterwards.

Vernon Sanders Law
Pittsburgh Pirates
Pitcher

That was the best two years of my life, in that city, that stadium. That's just kind of hard to take when you're not there anymore.

On being traded to the Blue Jays by the Yankees.

David Lee Wells
New York Yankees
Pitcher

Well, unless he was sitting in the third deck, there was no reason to move.

Describing why Orioles OF Albert Belle stood motionless during a Bernie Williams home run at Yankee Stadium on 4/18/99

James Alvin "Jim" Palmer
Baltimore Orioles
Pitcher
HOF 1990

On the day I was signed, Mr. Finley, the owner of the Athletics at that time came up to me and said, 'When you were six you ran away from home, and when your parents found you at a nearby lake, you had already caught two catfish and were pulling in a third.  Now repeat it back to me.'

On how he got his nickname

James Augustus "Catfish" Hunter
New York Yankees
Pitcher
HOF 1987

Contributed by: Nick Johnson

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