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"Radio Announcing I Have Did"

Title of a lecture he gave at Southern Methodist University sometime after the St. Louis Board of Education, distressed by the example being set for children by the bizarre syntax and brutalized grammer used in his Cardinals game broadcasting, asked that he be removed from the airwaves

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

You'd run fast too if you had five wives.

When asked how he'd come to be a fast baserunner

Enos Bradsher "Country" Slaughter
St. Louis Cardinals
OF
HOF 1985

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

Argyin' with an umparr is like argyin' with a stump. Maybe you city folks don't know what a stump is. Well, it's somethin' a tree has been cut off of.

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

Dear Mr. Kuhn:

After twelve years in the Major Leagues, I do not feel that I am a piece of property to be bought and sold irrespective of my wishes. I believe that any system which produces that result violates my basic rights as a citizen and is inconsistent with the laws of the United States and of the several States.

It is my desire to play baseball in 1970, and I am capable of playing. I have received a contract offer from the Philadelphia Club, but I believe I have the right to consider offers from other clubs before making any decisions. I, therefore, request that you make known to all the Major League Clubs my feelings in this matter, and advise them of my availability for the 1970 season.

Sincerely yours,

Curt Flood

Subsequent to being advised that he was being traded from the Cardinals to the Phillies, Flood's letter to Commissioner Bowie Kuhn asking for his freedom from the Reserve Clause

Note: Flood sued MLB and his case advanced to the Supreme Court; this action cost him the remainder of his playing career and he lost the lawsuit but his case was the first step towards Free Agency.

December 24, 1969
Curtis Charles "Curt" Flood
St. Louis Cardinals
Outfielder

My favorite word in English, and I love this word, is "youneverknow."

Joaquin Andujar
St. Louis Cardinals
Pitcher

They wanted me to play third base like Brooks. So I did play like Brooks -- Mel Brooks.

Andrew James "Andy" Van Slyke
St. Louis Cardinals
CF

The score is nothing to nothing and nobody's winning.

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

A lotta folks who ain't saying ain't, ain't eatin'. So, Teach, you learn 'em English, and I'll learn 'em baseball.

Said on the air in response to an English teacher who wrote to him, complaining that he shouldn't use the word "ain't" on the air, as it was a bad example to children

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

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