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@Jimfrombaseball Avatar @Jimfrombaseball Jim Koenigsberger

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""Whenever I played on an All-Star team in the Negro Leagues with Josh Gibson Josh was the catcher. I played third base. Everything I could do Josh Gibson could do better. I couldnt carry his mitt". Roy Campanella "In 1936 high school student Roy Campanella was invited by the Phillies to work out Shibe Park but when he arrived they discovered he was black the offer was rescinded. In 1941 Campanella received a telegram informing him that a tryout with the Pirates was arranged but Pirates owner Ben Benswanger later reneged on implied arrangement. "Roy Campanella was held out of the majors until"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-14T11:03Z 27K followers, 2823 engagements

""When we played the Dodgers in St. Louis they had to come through our dugout and our bat rack was right there where they had to walk. My bats kept disappearing and I couldn't figure it out. Turns out Pee Wee Reese was stealing my bats. I found that out later after we got out of baseball. Pee Wee and Rube Walker stole my bats." Stan Musial"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-13T18:07Z 27K followers, 6058 engagements

""Babe Ruth who had not been told he had cancer out of his familys fear he might do himself harm was put on teropterin a folic acid derivative and may have been the first human subject. Ruth began receiving daily injections of teropterin and a closely related drug methotrexate which is now widely used in treating cancer and other diseases. Ruth said he knew teropterin hadrarely been used on humans ''but asked no questions'' and probably signed no formal consent as is required today before receiving injections for six weeks. Remarkably Ruth had a dramatic clinical response with regression of"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-13T12:13Z 27K followers, 14.1K engagements

""1935 marked the first time Detroit had won a World Series. In the depths of an economic depression Mickey Cochrane became a national hero. People named their children after him. Oklahoma farmer Mutt Mantle decided one of his kids was going to be a baseball player before he was even born: he named him Mickey. After Mickey Cochrane was gravely injured in 1937 by a beanball and needed money Ty Cobb paid off his bills and supported the Hall of Famer for life. Muddy Ruel said: There were many many more like Mickey that Ty Cobb helped. Many. Casey Stengel had a story: "Back around 1938 Ty Cobb"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-15T10:53Z 27.1K followers, 4870 engagements

"Very well done Thank you"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-17T01:45Z 27.1K followers, 2798 engagements

"Mickey Rivers frequently bet so much on horses that even making a major league salary Mickey frequently would run out of money before the next paycheck. One day before a game in his uniform pants Rivers went into George Steinbrenner's office and said he wanted a bonus. They went back and forth and Steinbrenner finally decided Rivers deserved it and said it would be in his next paycheck. "I want it now" Rivers said "in cash." Steinbrenner went to the safe in his office and pulled out $10000 in hundreds which Rivers shoved into his back pocket. During the game Rivers stole second and the throw"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-11T12:01Z 27K followers, 21.9K engagements

"Harmon Killebrew visited 8-year-old John Guiney who was badly burned when his altar robe caught fire while lighting candles at his parish church in Brooklyn While in a New York hospital John's favorite player came to visit. "Im a shortstop" the boy said. Harmon Killebrew made a deal with John: "If you hurry up and get well the next time Im in town Ill take you out to the ball park and you can meet all the fellows." "Ill watch you on television" the freckle-faced youngster said from his hospital bed. "Maybe Ill hit you a couple of home runs" Killebrew responded. Guess what Harmon Killebrew hit"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-04T12:55Z 27K followers, 44.7K engagements

""The dreams are that you're gonna have a great series and win. The nightmares are that you're gonna let the winning run score on a ground ball through your legs. Those things happen you know. I think a lot of it is just fate. Mistakes are a part of life but it's how we learn from them that truly defines us.Don't let one error define your entire career. It's what you do next that truly matters." Bill Buckner I always loved his unwavering love of the game and his ability to persevere"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-12T17:58Z 27K followers, 4554 engagements

""To Mickey the greatest of them all. Best Always Roger Maris" Signed baseball owned by Mickey Mantle. "The greatest thing I ever saw was Roger Maris breaking Babe Ruths record." Mickey Mantle"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-16T18:32Z 27.1K followers, 10.7K engagements

""Absent the radar guns and computer-generated technology of the late twentieth century which turned acts of grace into biomechanical models he was admired rather than analyzed. His fastball remains elegantly understated unmeasurable unknowable. His curveball lives on in grainy television footage and in the memory of the unfortunates who tried to hit it. There are those romantics and catchers content to leave it at that Roseboro among them: "That SOB was unusual. There's never been another like him and I don't think there ever will be. Trying to explain how he throws how he got his control how"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-12T12:36Z 27K followers, 2454 engagements

""I was in the top ten percent of my class in law school. I'm a doctor of jurisprudence. I'm an honorary doctor of laws. And I like to believe I'm an intelligent man. Then will you please tell me why in the name of common sense I spent four mortal hours today conversing with a person named Dizzy Dean" Branch Rickey "The most famous member of the Cardinals was a cocky righthanded pitcher from Arkansas: Jerome Hanna Dean. A farmboy who had dropped out of school in the second grade 'I didn't do so well in the first grade either' Dean said was an eighteen-year-old itinerant cotton picker when"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-14T18:19Z 27K followers, 12.5K engagements

""Satchel Paige had a very very good fastball. but the first time I faced Satchel he threw me a little breaking ball just to see what I could do and I hit it off the top of the fence. I got a double. When I got to second Satchel told the third baseman 'Let me know when that little boy comes back up.' Three innings later I go to kneel down in the on-deck circle and I hear the third baseman say 'There he is'. Satch looked at the third baseman and then he looked at me. I walk halfway to home plate and he says 'Little boy.' I say 'Yes sir' because Satch was much older than I am so I was trying to"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-16T11:57Z 27.1K followers, 111.2K engagements

""I'm very pleased and very proud of my accomplishments but I'm most proud of hitting XXX home runs and 3000 hits. Not Ted Williams not Lou Gehrig not Joe DiMaggio did that. They were Cadillac's and I'm a Chevrolet." Carl Yastrzemski September XX 1979"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-08T18:31Z 27K followers, 24.5K engagements

"With some time off before his first season as CBSs golden boy Jackie Gleason camped out at Toots Shors with Frank Sinatra and his celebrity pals. One evening Frank showed up during Jackies morning eye-opener with four tickets to the sold-out final playoff game between the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers. J. Edgar Hoover the head of the FBI was having a tte--tte with Toots and Frank invited the trio to accompany him to the game. Everyone agreed except Jackie who wanted to stay at the bar and drink. They finally talked Jackie into it by renting a fully stocked limo. Sinatra recalls: We"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-09T11:37Z 27K followers, 4508 engagements

"Realistic Scientific The game that puts you in the managers seat Strat-O-Matic "The last time I hit a home run to win a game in the bottom of the ninth I was playing Strat-O-Matic against my brother." Lenny Dykstra "I have sets literally of almost every single year of Strat-O-Matic baseball. That's how huge I was into it" Rex Ryan Strat-O-Matic got its start in 1961 when founder Hal Richman began selling an early version of the baseball game out of his basement and was the forerunner to rotisserie and fantasy leagues. Sales exploded when Richman began buying advertising space in "Sports"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-16T18:09Z 27.1K followers, 12.2K engagements

"The Pittsburgh Pirates arrived in Chicago on Sept. XX 1938 one-and-a-half games ahead of the Cubs in the National League pennant race. Pirates manager Pie Traynor turned to right-handed reliever Mace Brown. Pirates Brown had two strikes on Gabby Hartnettboth curve ballsand at 5:37 p.m. he threw another curve which Hartnett drove into the left-field bleachers. "The mob started to gather around Gabby before he reached first base. By the time he had rounded second he couldnt have been recognized in the mass of Cub players frenzied fans and excited ushers but for that red face which shone out"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-14T11:09Z 27K followers, 2044 engagements

"Over his 19-year career with the Red Sox beginning in 1939 he batted .344 hit XXX home runs had a .482 on-base percentage (still the best in baseball) and earned six batting titles two Triple Crowns two MVPs and XX All-Star appearances"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-14T23:27Z 27K followers, 4210 engagements

""Fortunately I played for a manager like Earl Weaver who was smart enough to realize that saving a run is just as good as scoring one. As long as I fielded the heck out of my position he was going to have me in that lineup regardless of my hitting. So I dedicated myself to making a science out of playing center field." Paul Blair Earl Weaver taking infield"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-01-19T13:21Z 27K followers, 15.7K engagements

"Dodgers announcer Red Barber had a bleeding ulcer and could not serve as the lead Dodgers broadcaster. The Dodgers still had Barbers partner Connie Desmond but they needed another announcer so Dodgers GM Branch Rickey went out to find a suitable addition to the Dodgers broadcast team and settled on Ernie Harwell. However Ernie Harwell had a contract with the Atlanta Crackers and Crackers President Earl Mann was not going to let his announcer go without compensation so the Dodgers sent catcher Cliff Dapper to Atlanta and Ernie Harwell became the only broadcaster ever traded for a player in 1948"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-09-08T11:02Z 27K followers, 18.7K engagements

""When it came to winning 'the big game' there were few pitchers who compared with Bob Gibson. As outstanding as the St. Louis Cardinals' scowling right-hander was at other times he was at his most ferocious when the spotlight shined brightest." Larry Schwartz "There was a country full of angry black people and I was perceived as one. That had little if anything to do with the way I worked a batter. I didnt see a hitters color. I saw his stance his strike zone his bat speed his power and his weaknesses." Bob Gibson During the 1968 season Bob Gibson started XX games and finished XX of them. Bob"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-13T12:07Z 27K followers, 1316 engagements

""To San Francisco Willie Mays was a New Yorker was always a New Yorker. Willie understood that. Thats why he was eager to accept a trade back to Shea and the Mets. They didnt like Willie because he wasnt one of them. Willie McCovey was the one they fell in love with. He was the San Francisco Giants." Jerry Izenberg "I've always had a connection here in the city from the first day I arrived. I stayed in the city. I made San Francisco my home. I was seen in the off season at a lot of different functions and people liked that. People need to know how special the team was to our area. Mays was"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-13T12:20Z 27K followers, 2816 engagements

""We wept. Brooklyn was a lovely place to hit. If you got a ball in the air you had a chance to get it out. When they tore down Ebbets Field they tore down a little piece of me." 'The Duke of Flatbush' New York Times"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-15T10:59Z 27K followers, 9324 engagements

""I was born and raised in New York born in the Bronx grew up in Washington Heights. Our school was about XX city blocks from the Polo Grounds. School in those days let out at 2:30 and the games at the Polo Grounds started at 3:15of course they had to be played during the day at that time. I was a member of two city clubs the 'Catholic Youth Organization' and the 'Police Athletic League' and because I was a member I got to the games three times every week for nothing. You could go and sit in the grandstand and thats where I fell in love with the game and followed my idol who was a player named"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-12T00:11Z 27K followers, 25K engagements

""Who's died in the last XXX years because of a bad call They say 'Well they lost a World Series and the kid lost his perfect game.' I said 'Who died' Leave the human element in the game. You cannot take the human element out of baseball because it is the fabric of the game. Let me tell you you cant control this game no matter how hard you try. We gave up a long time ago of trying to figure this shit out. It has a mind of its own it has a character of its own. And they are taking that character out of the game. It breaks my heart. I see the lack of fundamentals. Kids are not being taught how"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-16T12:17Z 27.1K followers, 5980 engagements

"Yogi Berra joined the Yankees in 1946 fresh out of the Navy where he had served for three years during WWII. Berra went to Yankee Stadium still wearing his Navy uniform and the first person he met was Yankee clubhouse man Pete Sheehy. "I bet I dont look much like a ballplayer" Berra told Sheehy. Sheehy replied "You didnt look much like a sailor either." "Big Pete" Sheehywas the equipment manager for the Yankeesfrom the age of XX until his death at age XX. WhenLou Gehrigrealized his career was over he flipped his glove to Sheehy and said "Im done Pete" Sheehy was the man who issuedMickey"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-07T11:38Z 27K followers, 20.1K engagements

""The Baseball Riddle" "What really makes baseball so hard is it's retributive capacity for disaster if the smallest thing is done wrong and the invisible presence of defeat that attends every game." Roger Angell Do you remember the answer"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-16T12:07Z 27.1K followers, 71.4K engagements

""There is only one game at the heart of America and that is baseball and only one beverage to be found sloshing at the depths of our National soul and that is beer. Beer needs baseball and baseball needs beer. It has always been thus." Peter Richmond "The Crowd At The Game" Leslie Thrasher 1914"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-09-18T10:54Z 27K followers, 1253 engagements

""The Naugatuck Nugget" Missed X years serving in WWII was among the thousands who went ashore in Normandy. Shea was carrying two cans of gasoline when a snipers bullet hit one of the canisters. Scorched virtually from head to toe Shea recovered and was in a Army hospital for months. No Purple Heart though because it wasnt enemy action. I always wondered though if they called it friendly action. Frank "Spec" Shea The telephone rang in the Shea household one day and Spec asked his daughter to answer it. May I ask whos calling please said Barbara Shea then nineteen years old. It was Robert"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-09T11:06Z 27K followers, 3130 engagements

""Three times in his sensational career has Sandy Koufax walked out to the mound to pitch a fateful ninth where he turned in a no-hitter. But tonight September the ninth nineteen-hundred and sixty-five he made the toughest walk of his career Im sure because through eight innings he has pitched a perfect game. Koufax has struck out XX he has retired XX consecutive batters and the first man he will look at is catcher Chris Krug big right-hand hitter flied to second grounded to short. Dick Tracewski is now at second base and Koufax ready and delivers: curveball for a strike. It is 9:46 p.m"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-14T11:48Z 27K followers, 10.8K engagements

""First it was so hot and rainy in Florida in the summer. Alsowhite kids didnt play against black kids in Florida. I chose to come up and live with my grandparents who lived on perimeter of Detroit. I played amateur baseball downtown and I got into tough competition" Bill Freehan "Bill Freehan was one of the greatest men Ive ever played alongside or had the pleasure of knowing" Willie Horton Horton was signed by the Tigers as a catcher the Tigers then asked Willie Horton to play the outfield because this kid Bill Freehan had showed up "Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: For"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-14T18:29Z 27K followers, 4399 engagements

""I remember one game I got five hits and stole five bases but none of it was written down because they forgot to bring the scorebook to the game that day. They say I was born too soon. I say the doors were opened too late." James Thomas "Cool Papa" Bell Negro League teammate and fellow Hall of Famer Satchel Paige claimed that Bell was faster than track star and Olympic gold medallist Jesse Owens. Bell could round the bases in just XX seconds. For context the record for the fastest inside-the-park home run in the Statcast-era is Byron Buxton an elite athlete with ridiculous speed . at 13.85"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-06T19:17Z 27K followers, 5090 engagements

"A letter from Ted Williams. From Ted Williams Washington Senators Manager a four-page letter defining his theories on hitting sent to Jay Johnstone OF California Angels during the winter of 1968-69 in reply to a letter of request for advice on hitting. "Dear Jay: There are a few things I think are all-important to anyone no matter how much ability a fellow has no matter what style he has and without ever seeing you I know this is good solid advice. It is impossible for me to say anything about your swing or how I might help you in this respect so I am just going to outline what I consider"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-15T11:20Z 27K followers, 3362 engagements

""I would always leave him feeling a lot better than before I had met him." Vin Scully on Tony Gwynn"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-01-02T12:15Z 27K followers, 14.3K engagements

""I said to Curt Flood 'Unless some miracle takes place and the Supreme Court reverses itself you're not going to win'. And Curt to his everlasting credit said 'But would it benefit all the other players and future players' And I said 'Yes.' And Curt said 'That's good enough for me'" Marvin Miller In my HOF"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-13T12:37Z 27K followers, 4526 engagements

""So to Toledo he's a legend" He grew up watching the Toledo Mud Hensthrough knot holes in the fence at Swayne Field and then he was throwing out the first pitch at a beautiful new stadium a stadium he helped make a reality by starring in commercials to garner public support for its construction. Jamie Farr Toledo"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-07-02T12:07Z 27K followers, 3349 engagements

""It Was Not War It Was Murder" Lt. Jubal Early when "Pattons Brigade" joined Lees forces at the crossroads hamlet of Cold Harbor. George S. Patton II and his son George S. Patton III at the grave of George S. Patton Sr. who was mortally wounded in 1864 during the 'Battle of Cold Harbour' and his brother Lt. Col. Waller T. Patton who was killed during "Picketts Charge" in 1863 and later re-interred here in the same grave 1919 Winchester Virginia. To honor his deceased father George William Patton changed his name to George Smith Patton II The world will little note nor long remember what we"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-13T18:28Z 27K followers, 3457 engagements

""Babe Ruth erupted into baseball like an Everest in Kansas. There was no one like him before. No one remotely like him. In his third year as a full time player that is his third year not as a pitcher just three years Ruth held the career record for home runs. Ruth went on to break his own record XXX times and when he retired with XXX home runs the man in second place in career home runs then Lou Gehrig had fewer than half the number Ruth had. There's never been a disparity like that; a talent so disproportionate to what had come before." George Will "Sportswriters competed to come up with new"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-15T10:57Z 27.1K followers, 11.7K engagements

""At the time I know there were some very disappointed people who thought I should play pro hockey. The Boston Bruins were interested in me and people thought I would sign with them and have a career in pro hockey. I played high school hockey. We would draw between a thousand and two-thousand people to a game. At a baseball game we might only draw a handful of people. So people knew me as a hockey player. And honestly I tell people that I think I was a better hockey player than I was a baseball player. Milt Schmidt the Bruins GM and a Hall of Fame player talked to me and and told me to go"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-06T19:08Z 27K followers, 5778 engagements

""When I first came to the Yankees in 1978 I was awful. It got so bad that when I was asked to come in to pitch I'd get in that little car pretty quick and lock the doors. There were more than a few things thrown at us as we drove around the warning track. During one rough stretch that tiny Datsun was bringing me in from the bullpen. All of the sudden Mickey Rivers throws himself on the hood of the car screaming 'No no anybody but Goose We want to win When I got to the mound Thurman Munson was laughing. Thurman pointed to center field. There was Mickey Rivers his back to home plate in a"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-12T18:00Z 27K followers, 11.9K engagements

"Joe Garagiola: Yogi youre lost. Yogi Berra: "Yeah I know it. But were making good time aint we". 5447 Elizabeth Berra grew up here. As kids Berra and Garagiola played baseballin an empty lot down the street. 5446 Elizabeth Joe Garagiolagrew up across the street from Berra. "Not only was I not the best catcher in the major leagues; I wasn't even the best catcher on my street." Joe Garigiola"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-14T11:39Z 27K followers, 18.8K engagements

"Erin States's parents were season ticket holders with seats in the left field corner stands of the Oakland Coliseum. Erin was X in 1989 when he went to her first game right after the Yankees traded Rickey back to the A's. Erin tried to get Rickey's attention but couldn't so the next time she went she made a sign that said "HI RICKEY" and drew a heart on it. Rickey saw it and waved to her. After the game he brought her a ball. From then on she took more specific signs to the games: NICE STEAL GREAT HOME RUN Erin was devastated when Oakland traded Rickey to Toronto. She wrote a letter to"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-08-20T11:33Z 27K followers, 13.6K engagements

""Thurman Munson played harder than any man I've ever met. He played in pain. He played with purpose. Most of all he brought out the best in those around him." "Catfish" Hunter Hunter Graig Nettles "Goose" Gossage and Willie Randolph arrive at the ballpark the day after their teammate Thurman Munson died in a plane crash. Thurman Munson is in my HOF"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-05T17:57Z 27K followers, 20.7K engagements

"Moe Drabowskys biggest legacy was that he was one of baseballs al-time great pranksters. Once playing for the Cubs he got hit by a pitch and had a teammate wheel him to first base in a wheelchair a stunt that got his teammate ejected from the game. Drabowsky was notorious for slipping goldfish into the opposing teams water coolers and once ordered Chinese takeout from the bullpen of Anaheim Stadium. Playing for the 1969 Royals on his first trip back to Baltimore he hired a plane to fly over Memorial stadium towing a banner that read Beware of Moe. He was also a master of doling out nicknames."
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-14T11:29Z 27K followers, 21.1K engagements

"Drafted as an amateur free agent by the Boston Red Sox and played for the St. Louis Cardinals farm club team the Rochester Red Wings for seven seasons. But his biggest claim to baseball fame may be that between April and June 1953 Jack Preacher Faszholz wore the No. XX jersey and pitched for the St. Louis Cardinals before he gave up baseball to become an ordained Lutheran ChurchMissouri Synod pastor"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-17T01:53Z 27.1K followers, 3534 engagements

""My first roommate was Robin Roberts who had 270-some wins and I didnt have any. My first game at Fenway I came in with the bases loaded to face Tony Conigliaro the first guy I ever faced in the big leagues. Hank Bauer was the manager and he said Are you nervous I said Well Ive never done this before because I was a starting pitcher in A-ball the year before. I said What do I do with this warm-up ball. I had brought the warm-up ball in with me because I was so nervous. But I struck out Conigliaro and 3948 innings later I had never given up a grand slam. That could have happened with the first"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-15T18:55Z 27.1K followers, 43.2K engagements

""Everybody thinks because you make a lot of money that you have a lock on happiness. It's not true. I most fear boredom and loneliness life after baseball. Life after baseball equals boredom and loneliness. I don't want to be a 50-year-old guy sitting and drinking beer in some pickup bar with younger people. I've seen it. I don't want to be that." Keith Hernandez In my HOF"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-06T11:41Z 27K followers, 29.5K engagements

"Ron Santo grew up near old Sicks Stadium in Seattle where he worked as an usher in the press box and in the clubhouse. The Seattle Rainiers were then the top farm team for the Cincinnati Reds. "I shined Vada Pinsons shoes and then three years later I am playing against him. Ron Santo Are you nervous kidErnie Banks asked the rookie. When the rookie took batting practice he didnt hit a ball out of the cage. But instead of putting up a facade Ron Santo answered Oh yeah Ernie. "Every player had a roommate so I had to slip into the bathroom early each morning and secretly take my insulin"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-14T10:57Z 27K followers, 4140 engagements

""What color is he" Bob Gibson to Tim McCarver after McCarver told him after a game that there was a colored guy waiting to see him"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-12T12:26Z 27K followers, 5066 engagements

"It was just too much Bob Gibson. We weren't surprised that he threw as hard as he did but we were surprised that his slider was so good." Al Kaline on Bob Gibson. Kaline was Gibson's second eighth 15th strikeout victim"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-07T18:20Z 27K followers, 2032 engagements

""Sorry Mickey. Because of the way you lived you cant come in. But before you leave would you autograph these baseballs for Him" Mickey Mantle in a banquet speech joking about how he expected to be greeted once arrived at Heavens Pearly Gate"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-09T18:45Z 27K followers, 5062 engagements

""After the game Jackie Robinson came into our clubhouse and shook my hand. Jackie said 'You're a helluva ballplayer and you've got a great future.' I thought that was a classy gesture one I wasn't then capable of making. I was a bad loser. What meant even more was what Jackie told the press 'Mantle beat us. He was the difference between the two teams. They didn't miss DiMaggio.' I have to admit I became a Jackie Robinson fan on the spot. And when I think of that World Series his gesture is what comes to mind. Here was a player who had without doubt suffered more abuse more taunts and more"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-08T12:05Z 27K followers, 43.1K engagements

"Phil Rizzuto as a camera fixes on woman in stands: 'What a nice-looking young lady. She reminds me of that old song 'A Pretty Girl Is Like a Memory.' Bill White: 'Scooter I think that's 'Melody.' Rizzuto: 'How do you know her name is Melody' Then there was the night in Seattle the Yankees' first trip there to play the Pilots and Phil decided to tell the audience about this new American League city. Not much of an audience he decided because it was near the end of a long game and that made it almost X a.m. back in New York. "We're staying at a nice hotel" he said "and all the rooms are round."
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-13T18:06Z 27.1K followers, 62.1K engagements

""In my opinion the greatest game ever pitched was between the San Francisco Giants and Milwaukee Braves on July X 1963. Forty-two-year-old Warren Spahn and 25-year-old Juan Marichal each went XX innings and the game ended 1-0 on a home run by Willie Mays. Each pitcher threw over XXX pitches. Spahn threw XXX and Marichal XXX. There were seven future Hall of Fame players in that game including Spahn and Marichal. We will never see that again because the game wont allow it. But both guys were prepared to go as long as it took. And this game was not a fluke; both pitchers won XX games that"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-03T11:26Z 27K followers, 84.4K engagements

""I'll never be considered one of the all-time greats; maybe not even one of the all-time goods. But I'm one of the all-time survivors." Jim Kaat"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-10T11:50Z 27K followers, 4699 engagements

""Baseball on the radio is part of the background music of America. That's basic In a small town in a barbershop on a Saturday there's a ballgame in the background it goes without saying. You may be having a discussion of somebody's herd of cattle or some professor talking where I grew up about the exam he's going to give and the barber telling vaguely dirty jokes but in the background of all that is a ballgame. That's basic. Of course." Charley McDowell "Shuffleton's Barbershop" Norman Rockwell 1950"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-12T12:03Z 27K followers, 2991 engagements

""When Mantle took BP everybody would kind of stop what they were doing and watch." Jim Kaat on Mickey Mantle"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-11T18:56Z 27K followers, 7870 engagements

""It's hard to understand why Kenny Williams isn't enshrined in Cooperstown. Williams played with the Reds St. Louis Browns and Boston Red Sox from 1915 to 1929. One of baseball's finest hitters he compiled a lifetime batting average of .319 46th all-time. His slugging average of .531 is 23rd and his on-base percentage (.393) tied for 60th. During three sensational years at the height of his career (1921-1924) Williams averaged XXX runs scored XXX hits XX doubles XX triples XX home runs XXX RBIs XX stolen bases and a .345 batting average. In 1925 he was beaned and played in only XXX games but"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-11T12:15Z 27K followers, 2214 engagements

""Where the little girls in their Hollywood bungalows Are you a lucky little lady in the City of Light Or just another lost angel city of night City of Night City of Night City of Night" "L.A. Women" Jim Morrison met a girl named Lana Elliott at the 'Whisky a Go-Go'. Jim had wrecked his car and had no way home. So Lana took him to her Hollywood home above Sunset Blvd. The next day Jim invited himself to dinner with Lanas family where he played baseball with the Lanas brother and sister"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-15T11:13Z 27K followers, 4811 engagements

""I never set my sights low. I've always believed most people are ruined by the limitations they put on themselves. I was never afraid to take that step to see what I was capable of doing. Does luck play a role in success particularly in a creative field Sure it does. But if you don't have the balls to give it a shot you're destined to fail. I have a lot of diehard fans. Ace Frehley fans and Kiss fans are the greatest fans in the world." Ace Frehley Go easy"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-17T00:50Z 27.1K followers, 10.5K engagements

"I figured I was getting closer to the end when the bullpen catcher started taking his glove off before I was finished throwing. Greg Maddux For ten years running Greg Maddux could boast of being the winningest pitcher over the previous XX seasons a remarkable feat that remains unmatched in major league history. Greg Madduxs streak would have been XX straight years but it was interrupted by Randy Johnson Greg Maddux pitching for Peoria"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-09-24T18:21Z 27K followers, 2160 engagements

"A reporter asked Rickey Henderson if Ken Caminitis estimate that XX% of Major League players were taking steroids was accurate. Rickey's response was Well Rickeys not one of them so thats XX percent right there"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-04T19:03Z 27K followers, 2548 engagements

""Bye Bye Balboni" Steve Balboni to a reporter after hitting a grand slam: Hitting your first grand slam is a thrill. Ill always remember this. Reporter: You hit a grand slam two years ago Steve. Balboni: Oh yeah. I guess I forgot about that one"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-09-29T20:37Z 27K followers, 37.3K engagements

""If the Cincinnati Reds were really the first major league baseball team who did they play" George Carlin"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-11T11:52Z 27K followers, 28.9K engagements

""When I was XX years old I faced Gibby at an exhibition match in Florida. I tried to fill in a hole in the batters box and he told me Get in the box Im double parked He knocked me down X times and walked me. As I walked to first he said Dont even try to steal. I didnt" Rod Carew on Bob Gibson Rod Carew used a "C243" bat while winning seven batting titles but the original model was made for Jim Campanis son of big league player and executive Al Campanis a career .147 hitter who played only XXX big league games. The "T85" originally made for Marvelous Marv Throneberry a .237 hitter best known"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-09-29T11:55Z 27K followers, 5845 engagements

""The 1968 season has been named the 'Year of the Pitcher' which is only a kinder way of saying the 'Year of the Infield Pop-Up'. The final records only confirm what so many fans homeward bound after still another shutout had already discovered for themselves; almost no one it seemed could hit the damn baseball anymore. Bob Gibson we may conclude was the man most responsible for the next major change in the dimensions of the sport. Bob Gibsonsettled into his astonishing flailing delivery which he finishes with a running lunge toward the first base line. Denny McLain who stands hunchily on the"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-15T19:00Z 27.1K followers, 7566 engagements

""Stan Musial once joined his High School basketball teammates in threatening to forfeit an important tournament because hotel restaurant wouldn't seat their black teammate Buddy Griffey father of Ken Griffey grandfather of Ken Griffey Jr. in main dining room" Biographer George Vecsey"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-15T11:15Z 27.1K followers, 6470 engagements

""Baseball it is said is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes or games are created equal." George Will "Boys Baseball Team" Eugene Iverd 1926"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-07T11:09Z 27K followers, 1406 engagements