Baseball Quotes

[deadballfreaK]

In a rather confusing play Babe Herman hit a ball off the wall with the bases loaded and the Dodgers wound up with three men on 3rd base. Dazzy Vance who had somehow failed to score from 2nd was diving back into third with Chick Fewster standing on the bag already and Herman sliding in thinking he was getting a triple. While the umpires were trying to figure it out, Vance made a speech, "Mr. Umpire, fellow teammates, and members of the opposition. If you carefully peruse the rules of our national pastime you will find that there is one and only one protagonist in rightful occupation of this hassock - namely yours truly, Arthur C. Vance". And he was right. The other two were out.

[Cardboard Junkie]

"you're gonna get the mcgwire...".

[JollyElm]

Dick Allen about artificial turf:
"If a horse won't eat it, I don't want to play on it."

Bob Uecker:
"The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until the ball stops rolling and then to pick it up."

And then there's Yogi:
"So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face."

[howard38]

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[Jay Wolt]

Some memorable Ty Cobb quotes...

"I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch."

"When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch."

"The base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag full speed, feet first.
I had sharp spikes on my shoes. If the baseman stood where he had no business to be and got hurt, that was his fault."

[Peter_Spaeth]

Ty Cobb, asked in the 1950s what he would hit if he played today: about .275. When the interviewer expressed shock, Cobb added, I am almost 70 years old.

[KCRfan1]

Dodger pitcher Jerry Reuss was in a tight ball game. Tommy Lasorda went out to the mound with the intent to pull Reuss. Of course, Reuss wanted to continue to pitch. As Lasorda and Reuss were going back and forth about his staying or going, Yeager made it to the mound. Lasorda told Reuss that he would put it to a vote and be Democratic about it. Lasorda voted to pull Reuss, Reuss naturally said he wanted to pitch. With Yeager by his side, Reuss figured he had this in the bag. Lasorda asked Yeager what he thought, and Yeager said " Shoot, I would have pulled him two innings ago ".

[deadballfreaK]

Goose Goslin - "I truly loved those fastballs. Zip they'd come in, and whack .. right back out."

Al Bridwell on getting the hit that set off the whole "Merkle Boner" incident: " I wish I had never gotten that hit. I wish I'd struck out instead. If I had done that it would have spared Fred a lot of unfair humiliation. Yes, I wish I'd struck out. It would have been better all around."

For some reason a reporter asked the opposing pitcher before a World Series game how he would pitch to Gus Niarhos who was hardly a threat at the plate: "We'll probably throw him fastballs and bunch him towards the mound."