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Post by basenoc on Aug 25, 2006 10:57:09 GMT -5
i love reading or hearing quotes or stories about players, team......please post some of yours. here's one,
Johnny Blanchard sat in the Yankees clubhouse crying after learning he had been traded to Kansas City. Concerned for his teammate, Mickey Mantle sat down and tried to console Blanchard.
"Don't take it so hard, John. Just think, in Kansas City you're going to get a chance to play."
"Hell, I can't play, Mick. That's why I'm crying."
there's no crying in baseball ;D
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Post by basenoc on Aug 25, 2006 11:05:29 GMT -5
Los Angeles third baseman Pedro Guerrero committed several hard-to-believe fielding errors during one game. This was during the same time that Dodgers' second baseman Steve Sax was undergoing his horrendous and well-publicized fielding slump in which he couldn't throw the most routine ball to first without trouble.
In the post-game meeting, Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda was at a loss with Guerrero. "What are you thinking out there," Lasorda asked.
"Two things," Guerrero said.
"What's the first thing?"
"God, don't let them hit the ball to me."
"And what's the other thing," Lasorda said.
"Don't let them hit the ball to (Steve) Sax."
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Post by nyjyrk on Aug 25, 2006 12:30:39 GMT -5
The Yankees traded Bob Cerv to the KC A's in 1956. Casey Stengel broke the news to Cerv by saying "Nobody knows this yet, but one of us has just been traded to Kansas City."
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Post by basenoc on Aug 26, 2006 18:18:32 GMT -5
"After fifteen years of facing them (pitchers) you don't really get over them. They're devious. They're the only players in the game allowed to cheat. They throw illegal pitches and they sneak foreign substances on the ball. They can inflict pain whenever they wish. And, they're the only ones on the diamond who have high ground. That's symbolic. You know what they tell you in a war - 'take the high ground first.'"
"I'm flattered that so many baseball people think I'm a Hall of Famer. But what's hard to believe is how one-hundred and fifty plus people have changed their minds about me since I became eligible, because I haven't had a base hit since then."
-Richie Ashburn
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Post by basenoc on Aug 29, 2006 13:59:56 GMT -5
"A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy."
"That space between the white lines-that. s my office. That's where I conduct my business.. "
"A pitcher will never be a big winner until he hates hitters."
"I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale."
"It would depend how well she (his mother) was hitting." - answer to if he would throw at mom also
"I've got a right to knock down anybody holding a bat."
"I would if she (mom again) were crowding the plate." - answer to if he would blow her down on Mother's Day
"Only if she (mom again) was digging in." - answer to if he would throw at mom again
"You can't get enjoyment out of hate. I wish I could live by this one-hundred percent, but every fourth or fifth day during the summer, I go into a Jekyll and Hyde act. Every time a player gets a hit or home run off me I get strange notions and ideas of things I would like to do to him. Then after the game I feel ashamed and think to myself, 'This guy is a nice fellow and I wonder what's happening to you, Early?' So I'll call him up and invite him to be my guest at dinner and spend the evening talking shop."
- EARLY WINN
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Post by basenoc on Sept 6, 2006 16:08:47 GMT -5
"Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in" - Casey Stengel
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Post by basenoc on Sept 24, 2006 18:10:03 GMT -5
"I'd always heard it couldn't be done, but sometimes it don't always work." - Hall of Fame Manager Casey Stengel (1934-1965)
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Post by nyjyrk on Feb 14, 2007 20:19:09 GMT -5
"A hot dog at the ballgame beats roast beef at the Ritz. " ~Humphrey Bogart
"Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up." ~Bob Lemon
"If a horse can't eat it, I don't want to play on it." ~Dick Allen, on artificial turf, 1970
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