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It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

Mickey Charles Mantle
New York Yankees
OF
HOF 1974

Drop a ball from a 20-foot ladder and have me try to hit it, going straight down. Even for the best hitters in the world, that's gonna be tough to do. Now give me a 100-mph fastball -- straight, in the zone -- I'll hit it every time. I may not get a hit, but I'm gonna hit it. But if you do it the other way, that's what a curveball does. A good curveball with a lot of break, it's not necessarily that I don't recognize it, but it's moving so much that it's tougher to square up.

Comparing a batter's perspective to the fastball and the curve

Mark Charles Teixeira
New York Yankees
1B

It's the finest cola drink I ever tasted.

In an ad for Red Rock Cola

George Herman "Babe" Ruth
New York Yankees
OF
HOF 1936

Yeah, but the last time you faced him was this same inning.

When managing the Mets and pitcher Tug McGraw wanted to be left in the game after saying that he wasn't tired and that he'd struck out the batter he was about to face in his preceding at-bat

Charles Dillon "Casey" Stengel
New York Yankees
Manager
HOF 1966

I didn't begin cheating until late in my career when I needed something to help me survive. I didn't cheat when I won the 25 games in 1961. I don't want anybody to get any ideas and take my Cy Young Award away. And I didn't cheat in 1963 when I won 24 games. Well, maybe a little.

Edward Charles "Whitey" Ford
New York Yankees
Pitcher
HOF 1974

What's everyone blaming me for? Blame Felix. I wouldn't have hit into the double plays if he hadn't hit singles.

When playing for the Mets, after bouncing into four double plays in one game, each time wiping out Felix Millan, who batted in front of him and went 4-for-4

In 1975
Joseph Paul "Joe" Torre
New York Yankees
Manager
HOF 2014

Why pitch nine innings when you can get just as famous pitching two?

Albert Walter "Sparky" Lyle
New York Yankees
Relief Pitcher

One rule I had was make your best pitch and back up third base. That relay might get away and you've got another shot at him.

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

Never let a pitcher who lost a tough game that afternoon be your driver that night. The fellow gets beaten 2 to 1 or 1 to 0. Maybe somebody booted one and cost him the ball game. Maybe the umpire missed a strike on him, or maybe somebody popped up with a chance to win the game. The pitcher gets behind that wheel and he gets brooding over what happened that afternoon. Life doesn't mean anything to him, his or the lives of the guys riding with him. He takes curves at fifty miles an hour and tries to run trucks off the road. What does he care? He just lost a tough ball game.

Recalling life in the minor leagues when driving to another town during the evening was often how groups of team members got to their game the next day

Charles Dillon "Casey" Stengel
New York Yankees
Manager
HOF 1966

"Baseball For Everyone" by Joe DiMaggio (1948)

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