[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @Jimfrombaseball Jim Koenigsberger Jim Koenigsberger posts on X about world series, gibson, bob, pittsburgh pirates the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::731624499112771585/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXX +24% - X Month XXXXXXXXX +114% - X Months XXXXXXXXX -XX% - X Year XXXXXXXXXX -XX% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::731624499112771585/posts_active)  - X Week XXX +1.60% - X Month XXX +45% - X Months XXXXX +8.30% - X Year XXXXX -XX% ### Followers: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::731624499112771585/followers)  - X Week XXXXXX +0.85% - X Month XXXXXX +2.50% - X Months XXXXXX +11% - X Year XXXXXX +30% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::731624499112771585/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::731624499112771585/influence) --- **Social category influence** [mlb](/list/mlb) #454 [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) XXXX% [countries](/list/countries) XXXX% [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) XXXX% [finance](/list/finance) XXXX% **Social topic influence** [world series](/topic/world-series) #87, [gibson](/topic/gibson) #20, [bob](/topic/bob) 2.76%, [pittsburgh pirates](/topic/pittsburgh-pirates) #174, [take the](/topic/take-the) 2.07%, [roger](/topic/roger) 1.38%, [i remember](/topic/i-remember) 1.38%, [york](/topic/york) 1.38%, [homer](/topic/homer) 1.38%, [boston red sox](/topic/boston-red-sox) #138 **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@ken_ragsdale](/creator/undefined) [@bigredruckus](/creator/undefined) [@kingalani](/creator/undefined) [@andrewsmc2](/creator/undefined) [@morris172611](/creator/undefined) [@maryl1973](/creator/undefined) [@donpjenn](/creator/undefined) [@justinstirewalt](/creator/undefined) [@paulopinion](/creator/undefined) [@robertinno53](/creator/undefined) [@francisoconnel9](/creator/undefined) [@susan28674359](/creator/undefined) [@tterryjr](/creator/undefined) [@bigbwash1](/creator/undefined) [@cupchecklives](/creator/undefined) [@bezzarguy1](/creator/undefined) [@leeemckay1](/creator/undefined) [@michaelsepsick](/creator/undefined) [@joecappello3](/creator/undefined) [@michael53732168](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Noble Corporation (NE)](/topic/$ne) ### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::731624499112771585/posts) --- Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "Hes listed as day to day but then again arentwe all Vin Scully" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1726662845923004597) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2023-11-20T18:04Z 27.2K followers, 307.9K engagements ""If you put a baseball and other toys in front of a baby hell pick up a baseball in preference to the others. The American boy starts swinging the bat about as soon as he can lift one." Tris Speaker "Boy With A Carriage" Norman Rockwell 1916 This was Rockwell's first National magazine cover Rockwell was XX years old" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1934571360459673818) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-06-16T11:18Z 27.2K followers, 1012 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](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1940381880043376788) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-07-02T12:07Z 27.2K followers, 3349 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](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1965007942802935884) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-09-08T11:02Z 27.2K followers, 18.7K 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](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1972762614594932771) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-09-29T20:37Z 27.2K followers, 37.4K 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](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1974458409417072984) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-04T12:55Z 27.2K followers, 44.7K 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](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1974551071617171518) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-04T19:03Z 27.2K followers, 2553 engagements ""I didn't even know how to spell Sandy Koufax's name. I thought it was Kovacs. The day I phoned him Sandy Koufax told me had just come back from the Pittsburgh Pirates tryout so I told him to rest your arm for few days and then come down to Ebbets Field." The 18-year-old lefthander began to throw at an Ebbets Field tryout. In an otherwise empty ballpark on a cloudy drizzly late summer afternoon Sandy Koufax the son of a Brooklyn attorney fired a fastball that appeared to be headed into the dirt in front of the plate. "Then it rose for a kneehigh strike. As soon as I saw that fastball the hair" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1974555763180814786) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-04T19:22Z 27.2K followers, 7009 engagements "In 1961 around the time Bob Dylans career was taking off Roger Maris broke Babe Ruths record with XX home runs. In the book Roger Maris: Baseballs Reluctant Hero by Tom Clavin and Danny Peary the first chapter has a short byte on how Bob Dylan became a fan of Maris during his 1961 home run chase. To quote: Among those rooting for Roger Maris as he closed in on Babe Ruths record in September of 1961 was a folksinger whose nascent career took off that month in New York City thanks to a rave in the Times and his first studio work. Although he wasnt much of a sports fan Bob Dylan felt pride when" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1976609859727429767) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-10T11:24Z 27.2K followers, 3733 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](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1977165246549639460) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-12T00:11Z 27.2K followers, 25K engagements ""There is no sound in baseball akin to the sound of Mickey Mantle hitting a home run the crunchy sound of an axe biting into a tree yet magnified a hundred times in the vast cavernous echo making hollows of a ball field." Arnold Hano "The Commerce Comet" "When I first came to Yankee Stadium I used to feel like the ghosts of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig were walking around in there." Mickey Mantle" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1977349860958355482) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-12T12:25Z 27.2K followers, 3984 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](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1977350087836643602) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-12T12:26Z 27.2K followers, 5076 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](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1978414936519819574) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-15T10:57Z 27.2K followers, 11.8K 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](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1978418839621616061) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-15T11:13Z 27.2K followers, 4844 engagements ""I'll never forget September X 1950. I got a letter threatening me Hank Bauer Yogi Berra and Johnny Mize. It said if I showed up in uniform against the Red Sox I'd be shot. I turned the letter over to the FBI and told my Mgr. Casey Stengel about it. You know what Casey did He gave me a different uniform and gave mine to Billy Martin. Casey thought it'd be better if Billy got shot" Phil Rizzuto" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1978791318420664333) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-16T11:53Z 27.2K followers, 27K 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](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1978891761108852979) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-16T18:32Z 27.2K followers, 17.9K 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](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1978986939693842886) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-17T00:50Z 27.2K followers, 19.2K engagements "Bob Gibson's fierceness and evil intent on the mound were often attributed to what many perceived to be Gibsons scowling demeanor. In fact the infamous scowl was actually a squint. Bob Gibson had poor eyesight and had a hard time focusing on the catchers sign. Gibson used to tell a very funny story about showing up with Bill White at Willie Mays house for dinner. When Mays opened the door he looked at White quizzically and said Who the hell is that White replied Cmon Willie thats Gibson. Hes struck you out several times. Mays laughed. Gibson Gibson wears glasses Why dont you wear em when you" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1979150063038353689) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-17T11:38Z 27.2K followers, 2802 engagements ""Mickey Mantle walked over and peered into another glass-enclosed case labeled "The XXX Homer Club". Mantle looked back at his own likeness beside those of Hank Aaron Babe Ruth Willie Mays (660) Frank Robinson (586) Harmon Killebrew (573) Jimmy Foxx (534) Ted Williams and Willie McCovey (521). Ernie Banks and Eddie Mathews (512) and Mel Ott (511). Mantle kept staring at Williams' picture. "Ted Williams Mantle said softly My No. X idol. A female visitor standing nearby heard him. Ted Williams she said. Wasn't he a singer Mantle was flabbergasted. A singer Ted Wiliams My God lady. You must be" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1979153663244357715) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-17T11:52Z 27.2K followers, 18.4K engagements ""Kenny Boyer was a pillar of strength in the Cardinal organization. It was kind of an understood thing that Kenny took care of the players coming into the organization. He took people under his wing it was kind of like a father image. The ballplayers know Kenny Boyers a good one but nobody else does" Stan Musial "He was the boss of our field. He was the guy everyone looked up to. He was the guy who really filled that role if that role needed to be filled" Tim McCarver Kenny Boyer had XX All-Star selections was a five-time Gold Glove winner was National League MVP in 1964 leading the Cardinals" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1979154522359431653) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-17T11:56Z 27.2K followers, 1207 engagements ""I scouted 90000 players in my lifetime. Dick Allen was the greatest player I ever saw." Veteren Phillies Scout John Ogden "Dick Allen hits the ball harder than any player Ive ever seen." Willie Mays "Goose Gossage loved him. Because Dick talked to him about pitching You've got a fastball everybody can hit especially left-handers. You've got to knock these guys down. And that's what turned Gossage into when he went to New York to what he was." Bill Melton "He had the most amazing season in 1972 Ive ever seen. Hes the smartest baseball man Ive ever been around in my life. Theres no telling the" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1979256069835608338) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-17T18:39Z 27.2K followers, 2992 engagements ""Who is he anyhow an actor" "No." "A dentist" ".No he's a gambler." Gatsby hesitated then added cooly: "He's the man who fixed the World Series back in 1919." "Fixed the World Series" I repeated. The idea staggered me. I remembered of course that the World Series had been fixed in 1919 but if I had thought of it at all I would have thought of it as something that merely happened the end of an inevitable chain. It never occurred to me that one man could start to play with the faith of fifty million people--with the single mindedness of a burglar blowing a safe. "How did he happen to do that" I" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1979878574992638367) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-19T11:53Z 27.2K followers, 1656 engagements ""On a typical night at Dodger Stadium Vin Scully sits in the booth that's named after him perched on the chair he calls home for approximately XX games a season. He has two media guides home and away. Both are stuffed with index cards on which Scully has written notes on the stories he's researched stories of greater depth insight and humor than the ones that come pre-printed in the team-authored books. His scorebook sits front and center in a custom-leather binder. He has another book off to the side containing key stats and more index cards all of which are also prepared by Scully himself." [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1979886281522823600) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-19T12:24Z 27.2K followers, 2168 engagements ""The Cards Columbus affiliate played in the Southern Atlantic (Sally) League which had refused to admit Black players until 1953 when 19-year-old Henry Aaron who landed in Jacksonville and blew through the Jim Crow league blitzing everything the white pitchers threw at him. It wasnt a smooth integration. Dead black cats were thrown at Aaron when he took the field. He and the leagues two other Black playersFeliz Mantilla and Horace Garnergot death threats were derided with racial slurs spit at by fans and routinely harassed by local cops and sheriffs deputies. It wasnt much better four years" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1979887348889342017) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-19T12:28Z 27.2K followers, 1680 engagements "Never raise a son to be a reliever. George Fingers father of "Rollie" Fingers "Now you've got the long reliever the middle man the set-up man the short man the stopper whatever you want to call it guys who just pitch one inning at a time. I came in with Gaylord Perry winning by a run and saved XX of his XX games. I was pitching four or five innings sometimes. There was no such thing as a set-up man. I was my own set-up man." Rollie Fingers comparing todays relief pitching with the late 1970's" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1979888945363075471) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-19T12:34Z 27.2K followers, 2859 engagements ""Somewhat typical for Ted Williams was his decision to give away the six tickets he was allotted for each of the three World Series games at Fenway Park. Williams had his wife go to Kenmore Square before the games and give the tickets to the first six GIs she saw. He felt no need to tell the press about the token of appreciation for the fans." "The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams" Ben Bradlee Jr" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1979889301874708938) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-19T12:36Z 27.2K followers, 5369 engagements ""For me it was that you can dream big. I was born and reared on a farm in western Minnesota and dreamed of winning the World Series as a kid. So to see that come true it's almost overwhelming. If I would have told somebody that I was going to win the World Series in New York City when I was a kid they probably would have laughed. I did it though proving that anything is possible if you set your mind to it and work hard. It doesn't matter where you come from or how you are raised. Anything is possible in this country. Anything." Jerry Koosman 1969 "Jerry Koosman had brains heart and guts it" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1979890074964652255) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-19T12:39Z 27.2K followers, 3615 engagements ""Like the team itself the Polo Grounds is an absurd and lovely thing. It is the only ball park built against a cliff Coogans Bluff so that a patron could walk downhill to his seat. It had a crazy name and crazy dimensions. In shape it was closer to a bowling alley than a ball field. Straightaway sluggers loathed the field because a really noble smash to center good for a homer in any other park only amounted to a loud and discouraging out. I liked it best when we came into the place from up top rather than through the gates down at the foot of the lower-right-field stand. You reached the" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1979993685770334220) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-19T19:30Z 27.2K followers, 2379 engagements ""Blade" (SS Mark Belanger) and "Brooksie" (3B Brooks Robinson) made me a Hall of Famer." Jim Palmer" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1979996910820761944) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-19T19:43Z 27.2K followers, 4437 engagements ""Things change so fast in the United States. All of us have had the experience even by the time were XX of going back to the place where we grew up and finding out that everything has changed. Something about baseball seems to tie us into that change or to link us and to carry us across the decades and the times. As the new players come up and the old formerly-new players become old theres a kind of continuity to it that we dont find in our neighborhoods -- where the old factory is torn down and a supermarket goes up and then then supermarket is torn down and condominiums go up. And baseball" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1980224851878043695) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-20T10:49Z 27.2K followers, 1800 engagements ""It is a truism that baseball involves a lot of failure. Babe Ruth struck out 1330 times that is the equivalent of three seasons of at-bats without ever putting the ball in play. Ty Cobb whose .366 career batting average was the highest in history failed more than XX percent of the time. In a sense most Americans are failed ballplayers. That is one reason for the sport's unique grip on the Nation's imagination and affections." George Will "Baseball" Harrison Cady 1913" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1976974255838384144) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-11T11:32Z 27.2K followers, 5204 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](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1976984934158844300) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-11T12:15Z 27.2K followers, 2225 engagements ""In 1927 Lou Gehrig had XXX runs batted in. Lou Gehrig batted XX times after Babe Ruth had cleared the bases that season."" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1977347635208962376) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-12T12:16Z 27.2K followers, 4954 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](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1977433829234119158) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-12T17:58Z 27.2K followers, 4583 engagements ""There was simply no one like Buck O'Neil. He touched all of our lives in ways I can't express. Buck was a great American Hero whose compassion humanity and determination made the game of baseball and the country a better place for all of us." Lynn Novick Producer "Baseball" "Baseball in the Negro Leagues was a little bit rougher a little bit sweeter a little bit faster a little bit cooler and a little bit more fun than anything in Major League baseball. We may have not batted against Lefty Grove or pitched to Ted Williams but we had to stand in against 'Bullet Joe' Rogan and face Josh" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1977705291832529281) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-13T11:57Z 27.2K followers, 1575 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](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1979002797820465465) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-17T01:53Z 27.2K followers, 4005 engagements ""Mickey Lolich was starting with one less day of rest. He pitched the first two innings like a man defusing a live bomb working slowly and unhappily and studying the problem at length before each new move. Roger Angell When we got to the World Series the people of St. Louis were convinced that the Tigers were no match for their team. I met Bob Gibson at an autograph signing function years later and he told me that as far as St. Louis was concerned the 1968 World Series never happened. Mickey Lolich "Mickey Lolich was far from a conventional athlete. Labelled as too heavy too slow and too" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1979526651391217896) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-18T12:35Z 27.2K followers, 9678 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](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1978419441323930049) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-15T11:15Z 27.2K followers, 6568 engagements ""Dizzy was a big-time gambler. The night before I won my 30th in 1968 Dizzy says to me How you feeling Anything bothering you Think youre going to win tomorrow At the time I didnt know he was a big-time gambler. Dizzy was soliciting information. Dizzy and I both had the same personalities. We got along super well because he was as nuts as I was" Denny McLain Both had XX wins in a season" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1980338533681209740) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-20T18:21Z 27.2K followers, 2960 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](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1880968899455508816) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-01-19T13:21Z 27.2K followers, 15.7K engagements "Are you sure The team that came closest to signing Sandy Koufax away from the Dodgers was the Pittsburgh Pirates. Regional scout Ed McCarrick was tipped about Sandy Koufax by a call from a civilian bird dog and so chief scout Clyde Sukeforth and Branch Rickey Jr. went to see a Coney Island League game Koufax was pitching for the 'Parkviews' at Dyker Field. Koufax got banged around because he was ill that day but Sukeforth like McCarrick noted not only Koufax's fastball but his developing curve. Sukeforth thought enough of Koufax to arrange a Forbes Field audition. But Rickey was not impressed" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1974628745546727583) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-05T00:12Z 27.2K followers, 4647 engagements ""I can't honestly say that I appreciate the way in which Babe Ruth changed baseball from a game of science to an extension of his powerful slugging but he was the most natural and unaffected man I ever knew. No one ever loved life more. No one ever inspired more youngsters. I have reverence for his marvellous ability" Ty Cobb Babe Ruth was a longtime advocate of integrating baseball. "When the season ended Babe Ruth received hundreds and hundreds of invitations to barnstorm anywhere he wanted. Of the approximately fifteen games that Babe selected five were against Negro League teams. Three of" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1977347494515286043) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-12T12:15Z 27.2K followers, 7513 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](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1978055658126602374) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-14T11:09Z 27.2K followers, 2068 engagements ""Spike Honus Wagner It would have taken quite a foolhardy man. That god damned Dutchman Honus Wagner is the only man in the game I can't scare. He maybe the greatest star ever to take the diamond." Ty Cobb "I'm coming down on the next pitch Krauthead." Ty Cobb at 1st shouted to shortstop Honus Wagner in the 1909 World Series. Cobb did come down and Wagner tagged him in the mouth cutting his lip and knocking out two of Cobbs teeth. President Eisenhower wrote Wagner on his 80th birthday You are truly one of baseballs immortal heroes. "Honus Wagner was the greatest athlete in baseball." [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1978789392916361241) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-16T11:45Z 27.2K followers, 10.2K engagements ""Mickey Mantles at shortstop taking ground balls throwing em by the first baseman and outta the dugout comes Casey Stengel. Caseys got a fungo bat in his hand and he runs right at Mantle. He starts waving this bat at him he shoos Mantle out into the outfield and turns around and loudly announces to all the coaches and everybody thats assembled that this guy is gonna be a center fielder. Im gonna teach him how to play center field myself and I dont wanna see him at shortstop again'". Hank Workman Casey Stengel took Mantle aside in the dugout for a fatherly chat: "Kid you wanna play in the" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1979884637322166562) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-19T12:17Z 27.2K followers, 4160 engagements ""Harry Caray would tell the story of a beaten down Stan Musial going hitless in a Sunday doubleheader. The heat was unbearable that day hell could not be much hotter than a St. Louis summer day and after the game Musial walked gingerly to his car. He looked beaten down. He looked beat up. Musial never seemed to think of baseball as a job but a daytime doubleheader in St. Louis might have made him think twice about it. 'Watch this' Caray said to a friend as they watched the scene and sure enough when Musial got to the car there were a hundred kids waiting for him an autograph. Stan leaned" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1979994312684216528) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-19T19:33Z 27.2K followers, 66.9K engagements ""A particularly notable out-of-towner Ty Cobb paid Shoeless Joe a visit at his liquor store in West Greenville. Jackson gave his old friend a glance but said not a word as he pretended to wipe down an already clean counter. After picking out a bottle of whiskey an incredulous Cobb spoke up. Dont you know me Joe he asked. XX year old Jackson replied Sure I know you Ty but I wasnt sure you wanted to know me. A lot of them dont. As the pair reminisced about old times Cobb declared: Ill tell you how well I remember you. When I got the idea I was a good hitter Id stop and take a good look at you." [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1980227982368157771) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-20T11:01Z 27.2K followers, 3268 engagements ""Mickey Mantle wasn't the greatest player who ever lived not even of his time perhaps. He was a centerfielder of surprising swiftness a switch-hitter of heart-stopping power given to spectacle huge home runs. huge seasons one World Series after another. Yet for one reason or another he never became Babe Ruth or Joe DiMaggio - or arguably even Willie Mays his exact contemporary" Larry Schwartz Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays in a 1980 'Blue Bonnet' margarine commercial wearing bonnets eating corn" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1980229569794719770) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-20T11:08Z 27.2K followers, 4172 engagements ""Tommie would come to New york from Mobile and be wearing his white shoes red socks red shirt and seersucker suit and we would laugh. Mudcat Grant would say Man you cant wear that. We got to buy you some different clothes. Mrs. Maxine Agee Tommy Agee hits longest HR ever hit at Shea into the left field upper deck place where no one had ever hit one before or ever since in the 44-yearhistory ofShea. Tommie Agee also becomes the first non-pitcher to win a Gold Glove in each league" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1980700169030234468) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-21T18:18Z 27.2K followers, 4684 engagements ""If the Cincinnati Reds were really the first major league baseball team who did they play" George Carlin" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1976979309035503707) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-11T11:52Z 27.2K followers, 29K 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](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1978052483634131054) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-14T10:57Z 27.2K followers, 4159 engagements "Ron Santo hits a tremendous home run in Philladelphia and told teammate Glenn Beckert in the dugout: "I've never had a standing ovation on a road trip" Glenn Beckerts reply "You still haven't Ronnie. Take a look at the scoreboard. A man just walked on the moon." 1969" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1978417027837517922) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-15T11:05Z 27.2K followers, 7691 engagements ""Nobody has won XX games since McLain. No other pitcher has drunk as many Pepsi-Colas broken as many team rules played the organ as famously as McLain did. And there has never been another World Series game in which both starting pitchers had won "Cy Young" and MVP awards". Bob Gibson With Denny McLain on the 'Ed Sullivan Show'" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1979996727341109479) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-19T19:43Z 27.2K followers, 2944 engagements ""Tom Seaver approached Hank Aaron before his first All-Star Game in 1967 and asked Hank Aaron for his autograph. Tom Seaver felt the need to introduce himself to Hank Aaron. "Kid I know who you are and before your career is over I guarantee you everyone in this stadium will too." "Hank Aaron was my hero in baseball from the time I was old enough to recognize talent. He seemed so graceful such a complete professional. You could see the power in him the strength in his hands and wrists. I sat through entire ballgames just looking at Henry Aaron nothing else fascinated by him studying him at the" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1980231185142886412) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-20T11:14Z 27.2K followers, 51.1K engagements ""The 2015 All Star Game featured the four greatest living baseball players Hank Aaron Johnny Bench Sandy Koufax and Willie Mays who are all absolutely amazing players in their own right. But I'm in the room sitting next to my grandfather Yogi Berra and I'm thinking wait a second: he's got more MVP's than any of these guys he's won more World Series rings than all four of them combined. And I look at him and I said "Are you dead". And he said "Not yet". Lyndsay Berra recalling watching the 2015 All-Star Game on TV with her grandfather" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1980595546885673074) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-21T11:22Z 27.2K followers, 69.5K engagements ""I played with Willie Mays people have a false impression of what a great player is nowadays. If somebody puts up great numbers they think he's great. But if you saw Willie play you would see games where he would win it for us and he wouldn't even get a hit. He did things that nobody else does. That's what makes a great ballplayer." Willie McCovey "If somebody came up and hit .450 stole XXX bases performed a miracle in the field every day I'd still look you right in the eye and tell you that Willie Mays was better. Mays could do the five things you have to do to be a superstar: hit hit with" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1980702343587885318) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-21T18:26Z 27.2K followers, 2213 engagements ""You're going to be a great player kid." Jackie Robinson after 1952 World Series Mickey Mantle rounds the bases after homering off Sandy Koufax in Game X of the 1963 World Series October X 1963. In the top of the 7th inning with the Los Angeles Dodgers leading 1-0 Mickey Mantle hit a solo home run off Koufax to tie the game 1-1. This was Mantle's 15th World Series home run tying him with Babe Ruth for the most in World Series history at the time. Mickey Mantle's XX World Series Home Runs were hit between the 6th game of the 1952 World Series and the 7th game of the 1964 World Series. Mantle" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1980704082047488414) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-21T18:33Z 27.2K followers, 9780 engagements ""When I left Mobile and showed up to spring training in Winston-Salem North Carolina I didnt know whether I would even make the team and get a uniform. It was a lot colder in North Carolina and I didnt even have a jacket or warm clothes. All I was thinking was that I had to show them I could play. When I walked out on the field for my first game wearing a Clowns uniform I felt like I was something special". Hank Aaron In 1952 as a skinny crosshanded-batting eighteen-year-old the future home run king played shortstop for the Negro American League's Indianapolis Clowns under manager Buster" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1980967972505047144) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-22T12:02Z 27.2K followers, 4845 engagements ""Bobby Grich would be a star for any other club in the big leagues" Winnipeg Whip Mgr. Clyde McCullough. When the California Angels topped the Kansas City Royals at home and clinched the first division title in franchise history so happy was the clubhouse in celebration that when former President Richard Nixon came out to the clubhouse to congratulate them. Bobby Grich dumped a can of beer over Nixon's head after the Angels clinched the division 1979. "Bobby Grich is as good as any and probably the best ballplayer in the American League." Earl Weaver "I never did anything on a national" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1980972737548943486) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-22T12:21Z 27.2K followers, 1506 engagements ""They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again" Casey Stengel Stengel spent over XX years with Yankees winning TEN pennants AND SEVEN World Series. The Pirates defeated Yankees in60. Yankees fired Stengel following the defeat. They stated that at seventy years old Stengel was too old to manage. Art by Andrea Lavoie" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1981059821962219949) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-22T18:07Z 27.2K followers, 1681 engagements ""The game was two hours with the commercials. I wish they did that now." Yogi Berra after he and Don Larson watched a tape of Larson's perfect 1956 World Series game telecast. During Don Larsens perfect game he did not shake off one of the XX pitches Yogi Berra called. Three batteries from three Yankee perfect games. Joe Girardi & David Cone (July XX 1999) Don Larsen & Yogi Berra (October X 1956) David Wells & Jorge Posada (May XX 1998)" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1981060786207310150) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-22T18:11Z 27.2K followers, 1706 engagements ""Willie Mays. Arguably baseballs greatest player eating breakfast with his landlady in his tiny Harlem apartment in 1954. Mrs. Ann Goodsby who cooks does his laundry and generally takes care of the young star. The same year he won the MVP award in Americas most popular sport." David and Anna Goosby lived at St Nicholas Ave and 151st St. Mrs. Goosby would actually have to call Willie Mays in to supper when he was playing stickball in the street. Wiilie Mays would occasionally go to nightclubs but unlike his contemporaries Mickey Mantle and Billy Martin Mays rarely drank alcohol and never had" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1981323541258617108) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-23T11:35Z 27.2K followers, 3320 engagements ""I honestly felt it would be all right to play both sports for a number of years" Dick Groat "Your legs wont take the pounding of playing two sports on a pro level. You better make a choice" Branch Rickey trying to sign Dick Groat "Baseballs a sure thing. The NBA were not sure where thats going to go". Dick Groats Dad In 1952 Dick Groats 48-point performance became single-game scoring record for a Duke player. The record would stand for XX years. Branch Rickey wanted to sign him then offering to put him in the Pirates lineup the next night if he signed a contract on the spot. Groatrefused. In" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1944366951830016437) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-07-13T12:03Z 27.2K followers, 9513 engagements ""I honestly felt it would be all right to play both sports for a number of years" Dick Groat "Your legs wont take the pounding of playing two sports on a pro level. You better make a choice" Branch Rickey trying to sign Dick Groat "Baseballs a sure thing. The NBA were not sure where thats going to go". Martin Groat Dick Groats Dad. In 1952 Dick Groats 48-point performance became single-game scoring record for a Duke basketball player. The record would stand for XX years. Branch Rickey wanted to sign him then offering to put him in the Pirates lineup the next night if he signed a contract on" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1965008916854579399) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-09-08T11:06Z 27.2K followers, 19.9K 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](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1978792391822782563) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-16T11:57Z 27.2K followers, 175.6K engagements "Legend has it that when critics of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant complained to President Abraham Lincoln about Grant's drinking Lincoln replied "I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals." Grant's favorite brand is said to be "Old Crow" a Kentucky straight bourbon whiskey that is still sold today. "Ulysses S. Grant as President hosted the first all-professional team Cincinnati Red Stockings at the White House in 1869. Also a base ball match in 1874 pitting the rivals Yale and Harvard "nines" against each other." [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1980589547772621292) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-21T10:58Z 27.2K followers, 11.2K engagements ""I remember hearing how Mantle had lost a step and was a little past his prime. But when he got me in the 9th going the other way with a shot to left-center and hitting that game winner earlier in the series I couldn't help but think how good this guy truly was.and he was. Bob Gibson on Mickey Mantle's 18th and final World Series home run. Game X World Series 1964" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1980596398992052686) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-21T11:25Z 27.2K followers, 2962 engagements ""Count Basie who was a friend of mine invited me to sit down with him at the "Subway" club in Kansas City. This kid came in to the club with a horn Basie said to let him play. The kid started blowing and he was making some sounds that you never heard before. The kid turned out to be Charlie Parker. We didnt know what he was playing we just knew it was NEW." Buck ONeil" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1980969347452452871) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-22T12:07Z 27.2K followers, 2177 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](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1980969891529212031) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-22T12:10Z 27.2K followers, 16K engagements "Bob Gibson was named MVP of the 1964 World Series and awarded a new Corvette as a prize. A few days after the series ended Gibson was driving from St. Louis back to Omaha when he was pulled over by a cop in a small Missouri town. The cop demanded to see the Title of the car. Gibson didnt have one he explained because the car was brand new. He asked the cop why hed been stopped and the cop said there had been a report of a stolen Corvette just like the one Gibson was driving. Bob Gibson couldnt restrain himself and blurted out: Bullshit. Gibson told the cop he just didnt think a Black man" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1980971416083144756) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-22T12:16Z 27.2K followers, 88.4K engagements ""Stan Musial is the nicest man I ever met in baseball. And to be honest I can't relate to that. I never knew that nice and baseball went together." Bob Gibson" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1981060343108661461) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-22T18:09Z 27.2K followers, 8883 engagements ""It was such a glorious day and baseball is a revitalization of peoples lives. When the 'Season Opener' comes around theres flowers and sunshine and fresh air and ivy and friendship. I mean this is the beginning of peoples lives" Ernie Banks 'Opening Day'" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1981061739866443877) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-22T18:14Z 27.2K followers, 1762 engagements "At the age of XX Joe DiMaggio was sitting with the American League president and ex-teammate Dr. Bobby Brown at Candlestick Park when the 1989 San Francisco earthquake hit. DiMaggio was next spotted seeking aid at a Red Cross shelter holding garbage bags in his hands. My home has been pretty badly damaged DiMaggio said "and right now they wont let me back in. They won't allow it. Richard Cramer wrote in his book "Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life' that the garbage bags DiMaggio was holding were full of about $600000 in cash from memorabilia signings. The Yankee Clipper was known for trusting" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1981326731886592082) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-23T11:47Z 27.2K followers, 1738 engagements
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"Hes listed as day to day but then again arentwe all Vin Scully"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2023-11-20T18:04Z 27.2K followers, 307.9K engagements
""If you put a baseball and other toys in front of a baby hell pick up a baseball in preference to the others. The American boy starts swinging the bat about as soon as he can lift one." Tris Speaker "Boy With A Carriage" Norman Rockwell 1916 This was Rockwell's first National magazine cover Rockwell was XX years old"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-06-16T11:18Z 27.2K followers, 1012 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 27.2K followers, 3349 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 27.2K followers, 18.7K 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 27.2K followers, 37.4K 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 27.2K followers, 44.7K 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 27.2K followers, 2553 engagements
""I didn't even know how to spell Sandy Koufax's name. I thought it was Kovacs. The day I phoned him Sandy Koufax told me had just come back from the Pittsburgh Pirates tryout so I told him to rest your arm for few days and then come down to Ebbets Field." The 18-year-old lefthander began to throw at an Ebbets Field tryout. In an otherwise empty ballpark on a cloudy drizzly late summer afternoon Sandy Koufax the son of a Brooklyn attorney fired a fastball that appeared to be headed into the dirt in front of the plate. "Then it rose for a kneehigh strike. As soon as I saw that fastball the hair"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-04T19:22Z 27.2K followers, 7009 engagements
"In 1961 around the time Bob Dylans career was taking off Roger Maris broke Babe Ruths record with XX home runs. In the book Roger Maris: Baseballs Reluctant Hero by Tom Clavin and Danny Peary the first chapter has a short byte on how Bob Dylan became a fan of Maris during his 1961 home run chase. To quote: Among those rooting for Roger Maris as he closed in on Babe Ruths record in September of 1961 was a folksinger whose nascent career took off that month in New York City thanks to a rave in the Times and his first studio work. Although he wasnt much of a sports fan Bob Dylan felt pride when"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-10T11:24Z 27.2K followers, 3733 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 27.2K followers, 25K engagements
""There is no sound in baseball akin to the sound of Mickey Mantle hitting a home run the crunchy sound of an axe biting into a tree yet magnified a hundred times in the vast cavernous echo making hollows of a ball field." Arnold Hano "The Commerce Comet" "When I first came to Yankee Stadium I used to feel like the ghosts of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig were walking around in there." Mickey Mantle"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-12T12:25Z 27.2K followers, 3984 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 27.2K followers, 5076 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 27.2K followers, 11.8K 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 27.2K followers, 4844 engagements
""I'll never forget September X 1950. I got a letter threatening me Hank Bauer Yogi Berra and Johnny Mize. It said if I showed up in uniform against the Red Sox I'd be shot. I turned the letter over to the FBI and told my Mgr. Casey Stengel about it. You know what Casey did He gave me a different uniform and gave mine to Billy Martin. Casey thought it'd be better if Billy got shot" Phil Rizzuto"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-16T11:53Z 27.2K followers, 27K 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 27.2K followers, 17.9K 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 27.2K followers, 19.2K engagements
"Bob Gibson's fierceness and evil intent on the mound were often attributed to what many perceived to be Gibsons scowling demeanor. In fact the infamous scowl was actually a squint. Bob Gibson had poor eyesight and had a hard time focusing on the catchers sign. Gibson used to tell a very funny story about showing up with Bill White at Willie Mays house for dinner. When Mays opened the door he looked at White quizzically and said Who the hell is that White replied Cmon Willie thats Gibson. Hes struck you out several times. Mays laughed. Gibson Gibson wears glasses Why dont you wear em when you"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-17T11:38Z 27.2K followers, 2802 engagements
""Mickey Mantle walked over and peered into another glass-enclosed case labeled "The XXX Homer Club". Mantle looked back at his own likeness beside those of Hank Aaron Babe Ruth Willie Mays (660) Frank Robinson (586) Harmon Killebrew (573) Jimmy Foxx (534) Ted Williams and Willie McCovey (521). Ernie Banks and Eddie Mathews (512) and Mel Ott (511). Mantle kept staring at Williams' picture. "Ted Williams Mantle said softly My No. X idol. A female visitor standing nearby heard him. Ted Williams she said. Wasn't he a singer Mantle was flabbergasted. A singer Ted Wiliams My God lady. You must be"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-17T11:52Z 27.2K followers, 18.4K engagements
""Kenny Boyer was a pillar of strength in the Cardinal organization. It was kind of an understood thing that Kenny took care of the players coming into the organization. He took people under his wing it was kind of like a father image. The ballplayers know Kenny Boyers a good one but nobody else does" Stan Musial "He was the boss of our field. He was the guy everyone looked up to. He was the guy who really filled that role if that role needed to be filled" Tim McCarver Kenny Boyer had XX All-Star selections was a five-time Gold Glove winner was National League MVP in 1964 leading the Cardinals"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-17T11:56Z 27.2K followers, 1207 engagements
""I scouted 90000 players in my lifetime. Dick Allen was the greatest player I ever saw." Veteren Phillies Scout John Ogden "Dick Allen hits the ball harder than any player Ive ever seen." Willie Mays "Goose Gossage loved him. Because Dick talked to him about pitching You've got a fastball everybody can hit especially left-handers. You've got to knock these guys down. And that's what turned Gossage into when he went to New York to what he was." Bill Melton "He had the most amazing season in 1972 Ive ever seen. Hes the smartest baseball man Ive ever been around in my life. Theres no telling the"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-17T18:39Z 27.2K followers, 2992 engagements
""Who is he anyhow an actor" "No." "A dentist" ".No he's a gambler." Gatsby hesitated then added cooly: "He's the man who fixed the World Series back in 1919." "Fixed the World Series" I repeated. The idea staggered me. I remembered of course that the World Series had been fixed in 1919 but if I had thought of it at all I would have thought of it as something that merely happened the end of an inevitable chain. It never occurred to me that one man could start to play with the faith of fifty million people--with the single mindedness of a burglar blowing a safe. "How did he happen to do that" I"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-19T11:53Z 27.2K followers, 1656 engagements
""On a typical night at Dodger Stadium Vin Scully sits in the booth that's named after him perched on the chair he calls home for approximately XX games a season. He has two media guides home and away. Both are stuffed with index cards on which Scully has written notes on the stories he's researched stories of greater depth insight and humor than the ones that come pre-printed in the team-authored books. His scorebook sits front and center in a custom-leather binder. He has another book off to the side containing key stats and more index cards all of which are also prepared by Scully himself."
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-19T12:24Z 27.2K followers, 2168 engagements
""The Cards Columbus affiliate played in the Southern Atlantic (Sally) League which had refused to admit Black players until 1953 when 19-year-old Henry Aaron who landed in Jacksonville and blew through the Jim Crow league blitzing everything the white pitchers threw at him. It wasnt a smooth integration. Dead black cats were thrown at Aaron when he took the field. He and the leagues two other Black playersFeliz Mantilla and Horace Garnergot death threats were derided with racial slurs spit at by fans and routinely harassed by local cops and sheriffs deputies. It wasnt much better four years"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-19T12:28Z 27.2K followers, 1680 engagements
"Never raise a son to be a reliever. George Fingers father of "Rollie" Fingers "Now you've got the long reliever the middle man the set-up man the short man the stopper whatever you want to call it guys who just pitch one inning at a time. I came in with Gaylord Perry winning by a run and saved XX of his XX games. I was pitching four or five innings sometimes. There was no such thing as a set-up man. I was my own set-up man." Rollie Fingers comparing todays relief pitching with the late 1970's"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-19T12:34Z 27.2K followers, 2859 engagements
""Somewhat typical for Ted Williams was his decision to give away the six tickets he was allotted for each of the three World Series games at Fenway Park. Williams had his wife go to Kenmore Square before the games and give the tickets to the first six GIs she saw. He felt no need to tell the press about the token of appreciation for the fans." "The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams" Ben Bradlee Jr"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-19T12:36Z 27.2K followers, 5369 engagements
""For me it was that you can dream big. I was born and reared on a farm in western Minnesota and dreamed of winning the World Series as a kid. So to see that come true it's almost overwhelming. If I would have told somebody that I was going to win the World Series in New York City when I was a kid they probably would have laughed. I did it though proving that anything is possible if you set your mind to it and work hard. It doesn't matter where you come from or how you are raised. Anything is possible in this country. Anything." Jerry Koosman 1969 "Jerry Koosman had brains heart and guts it"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-19T12:39Z 27.2K followers, 3615 engagements
""Like the team itself the Polo Grounds is an absurd and lovely thing. It is the only ball park built against a cliff Coogans Bluff so that a patron could walk downhill to his seat. It had a crazy name and crazy dimensions. In shape it was closer to a bowling alley than a ball field. Straightaway sluggers loathed the field because a really noble smash to center good for a homer in any other park only amounted to a loud and discouraging out. I liked it best when we came into the place from up top rather than through the gates down at the foot of the lower-right-field stand. You reached the"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-19T19:30Z 27.2K followers, 2379 engagements
""Blade" (SS Mark Belanger) and "Brooksie" (3B Brooks Robinson) made me a Hall of Famer." Jim Palmer"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-19T19:43Z 27.2K followers, 4437 engagements
""Things change so fast in the United States. All of us have had the experience even by the time were XX of going back to the place where we grew up and finding out that everything has changed. Something about baseball seems to tie us into that change or to link us and to carry us across the decades and the times. As the new players come up and the old formerly-new players become old theres a kind of continuity to it that we dont find in our neighborhoods -- where the old factory is torn down and a supermarket goes up and then then supermarket is torn down and condominiums go up. And baseball"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-20T10:49Z 27.2K followers, 1800 engagements
""It is a truism that baseball involves a lot of failure. Babe Ruth struck out 1330 times that is the equivalent of three seasons of at-bats without ever putting the ball in play. Ty Cobb whose .366 career batting average was the highest in history failed more than XX percent of the time. In a sense most Americans are failed ballplayers. That is one reason for the sport's unique grip on the Nation's imagination and affections." George Will "Baseball" Harrison Cady 1913"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-11T11:32Z 27.2K followers, 5204 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 27.2K followers, 2225 engagements
""In 1927 Lou Gehrig had XXX runs batted in. Lou Gehrig batted XX times after Babe Ruth had cleared the bases that season.""
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-12T12:16Z 27.2K followers, 4954 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 27.2K followers, 4583 engagements
""There was simply no one like Buck O'Neil. He touched all of our lives in ways I can't express. Buck was a great American Hero whose compassion humanity and determination made the game of baseball and the country a better place for all of us." Lynn Novick Producer "Baseball" "Baseball in the Negro Leagues was a little bit rougher a little bit sweeter a little bit faster a little bit cooler and a little bit more fun than anything in Major League baseball. We may have not batted against Lefty Grove or pitched to Ted Williams but we had to stand in against 'Bullet Joe' Rogan and face Josh"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-13T11:57Z 27.2K followers, 1575 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 27.2K followers, 4005 engagements
""Mickey Lolich was starting with one less day of rest. He pitched the first two innings like a man defusing a live bomb working slowly and unhappily and studying the problem at length before each new move. Roger Angell When we got to the World Series the people of St. Louis were convinced that the Tigers were no match for their team. I met Bob Gibson at an autograph signing function years later and he told me that as far as St. Louis was concerned the 1968 World Series never happened. Mickey Lolich "Mickey Lolich was far from a conventional athlete. Labelled as too heavy too slow and too"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-18T12:35Z 27.2K followers, 9678 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 27.2K followers, 6568 engagements
""Dizzy was a big-time gambler. The night before I won my 30th in 1968 Dizzy says to me How you feeling Anything bothering you Think youre going to win tomorrow At the time I didnt know he was a big-time gambler. Dizzy was soliciting information. Dizzy and I both had the same personalities. We got along super well because he was as nuts as I was" Denny McLain Both had XX wins in a season"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-20T18:21Z 27.2K followers, 2960 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 27.2K followers, 15.7K engagements
"Are you sure The team that came closest to signing Sandy Koufax away from the Dodgers was the Pittsburgh Pirates. Regional scout Ed McCarrick was tipped about Sandy Koufax by a call from a civilian bird dog and so chief scout Clyde Sukeforth and Branch Rickey Jr. went to see a Coney Island League game Koufax was pitching for the 'Parkviews' at Dyker Field. Koufax got banged around because he was ill that day but Sukeforth like McCarrick noted not only Koufax's fastball but his developing curve. Sukeforth thought enough of Koufax to arrange a Forbes Field audition. But Rickey was not impressed"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-05T00:12Z 27.2K followers, 4647 engagements
""I can't honestly say that I appreciate the way in which Babe Ruth changed baseball from a game of science to an extension of his powerful slugging but he was the most natural and unaffected man I ever knew. No one ever loved life more. No one ever inspired more youngsters. I have reverence for his marvellous ability" Ty Cobb Babe Ruth was a longtime advocate of integrating baseball. "When the season ended Babe Ruth received hundreds and hundreds of invitations to barnstorm anywhere he wanted. Of the approximately fifteen games that Babe selected five were against Negro League teams. Three of"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-12T12:15Z 27.2K followers, 7513 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 27.2K followers, 2068 engagements
""Spike Honus Wagner It would have taken quite a foolhardy man. That god damned Dutchman Honus Wagner is the only man in the game I can't scare. He maybe the greatest star ever to take the diamond." Ty Cobb "I'm coming down on the next pitch Krauthead." Ty Cobb at 1st shouted to shortstop Honus Wagner in the 1909 World Series. Cobb did come down and Wagner tagged him in the mouth cutting his lip and knocking out two of Cobbs teeth. President Eisenhower wrote Wagner on his 80th birthday You are truly one of baseballs immortal heroes. "Honus Wagner was the greatest athlete in baseball."
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-16T11:45Z 27.2K followers, 10.2K engagements
""Mickey Mantles at shortstop taking ground balls throwing em by the first baseman and outta the dugout comes Casey Stengel. Caseys got a fungo bat in his hand and he runs right at Mantle. He starts waving this bat at him he shoos Mantle out into the outfield and turns around and loudly announces to all the coaches and everybody thats assembled that this guy is gonna be a center fielder. Im gonna teach him how to play center field myself and I dont wanna see him at shortstop again'". Hank Workman Casey Stengel took Mantle aside in the dugout for a fatherly chat: "Kid you wanna play in the"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-19T12:17Z 27.2K followers, 4160 engagements
""Harry Caray would tell the story of a beaten down Stan Musial going hitless in a Sunday doubleheader. The heat was unbearable that day hell could not be much hotter than a St. Louis summer day and after the game Musial walked gingerly to his car. He looked beaten down. He looked beat up. Musial never seemed to think of baseball as a job but a daytime doubleheader in St. Louis might have made him think twice about it. 'Watch this' Caray said to a friend as they watched the scene and sure enough when Musial got to the car there were a hundred kids waiting for him an autograph. Stan leaned"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-19T19:33Z 27.2K followers, 66.9K engagements
""A particularly notable out-of-towner Ty Cobb paid Shoeless Joe a visit at his liquor store in West Greenville. Jackson gave his old friend a glance but said not a word as he pretended to wipe down an already clean counter. After picking out a bottle of whiskey an incredulous Cobb spoke up. Dont you know me Joe he asked. XX year old Jackson replied Sure I know you Ty but I wasnt sure you wanted to know me. A lot of them dont. As the pair reminisced about old times Cobb declared: Ill tell you how well I remember you. When I got the idea I was a good hitter Id stop and take a good look at you."
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-20T11:01Z 27.2K followers, 3268 engagements
""Mickey Mantle wasn't the greatest player who ever lived not even of his time perhaps. He was a centerfielder of surprising swiftness a switch-hitter of heart-stopping power given to spectacle huge home runs. huge seasons one World Series after another. Yet for one reason or another he never became Babe Ruth or Joe DiMaggio - or arguably even Willie Mays his exact contemporary" Larry Schwartz Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays in a 1980 'Blue Bonnet' margarine commercial wearing bonnets eating corn"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-20T11:08Z 27.2K followers, 4172 engagements
""Tommie would come to New york from Mobile and be wearing his white shoes red socks red shirt and seersucker suit and we would laugh. Mudcat Grant would say Man you cant wear that. We got to buy you some different clothes. Mrs. Maxine Agee Tommy Agee hits longest HR ever hit at Shea into the left field upper deck place where no one had ever hit one before or ever since in the 44-yearhistory ofShea. Tommie Agee also becomes the first non-pitcher to win a Gold Glove in each league"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-21T18:18Z 27.2K followers, 4684 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 27.2K followers, 29K 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 27.2K followers, 4159 engagements
"Ron Santo hits a tremendous home run in Philladelphia and told teammate Glenn Beckert in the dugout: "I've never had a standing ovation on a road trip" Glenn Beckerts reply "You still haven't Ronnie. Take a look at the scoreboard. A man just walked on the moon." 1969"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-15T11:05Z 27.2K followers, 7691 engagements
""Nobody has won XX games since McLain. No other pitcher has drunk as many Pepsi-Colas broken as many team rules played the organ as famously as McLain did. And there has never been another World Series game in which both starting pitchers had won "Cy Young" and MVP awards". Bob Gibson With Denny McLain on the 'Ed Sullivan Show'"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-19T19:43Z 27.2K followers, 2944 engagements
""Tom Seaver approached Hank Aaron before his first All-Star Game in 1967 and asked Hank Aaron for his autograph. Tom Seaver felt the need to introduce himself to Hank Aaron. "Kid I know who you are and before your career is over I guarantee you everyone in this stadium will too." "Hank Aaron was my hero in baseball from the time I was old enough to recognize talent. He seemed so graceful such a complete professional. You could see the power in him the strength in his hands and wrists. I sat through entire ballgames just looking at Henry Aaron nothing else fascinated by him studying him at the"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-20T11:14Z 27.2K followers, 51.1K engagements
""The 2015 All Star Game featured the four greatest living baseball players Hank Aaron Johnny Bench Sandy Koufax and Willie Mays who are all absolutely amazing players in their own right. But I'm in the room sitting next to my grandfather Yogi Berra and I'm thinking wait a second: he's got more MVP's than any of these guys he's won more World Series rings than all four of them combined. And I look at him and I said "Are you dead". And he said "Not yet". Lyndsay Berra recalling watching the 2015 All-Star Game on TV with her grandfather"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-21T11:22Z 27.2K followers, 69.5K engagements
""I played with Willie Mays people have a false impression of what a great player is nowadays. If somebody puts up great numbers they think he's great. But if you saw Willie play you would see games where he would win it for us and he wouldn't even get a hit. He did things that nobody else does. That's what makes a great ballplayer." Willie McCovey "If somebody came up and hit .450 stole XXX bases performed a miracle in the field every day I'd still look you right in the eye and tell you that Willie Mays was better. Mays could do the five things you have to do to be a superstar: hit hit with"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-21T18:26Z 27.2K followers, 2213 engagements
""You're going to be a great player kid." Jackie Robinson after 1952 World Series Mickey Mantle rounds the bases after homering off Sandy Koufax in Game X of the 1963 World Series October X 1963. In the top of the 7th inning with the Los Angeles Dodgers leading 1-0 Mickey Mantle hit a solo home run off Koufax to tie the game 1-1. This was Mantle's 15th World Series home run tying him with Babe Ruth for the most in World Series history at the time. Mickey Mantle's XX World Series Home Runs were hit between the 6th game of the 1952 World Series and the 7th game of the 1964 World Series. Mantle"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-21T18:33Z 27.2K followers, 9780 engagements
""When I left Mobile and showed up to spring training in Winston-Salem North Carolina I didnt know whether I would even make the team and get a uniform. It was a lot colder in North Carolina and I didnt even have a jacket or warm clothes. All I was thinking was that I had to show them I could play. When I walked out on the field for my first game wearing a Clowns uniform I felt like I was something special". Hank Aaron In 1952 as a skinny crosshanded-batting eighteen-year-old the future home run king played shortstop for the Negro American League's Indianapolis Clowns under manager Buster"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-22T12:02Z 27.2K followers, 4845 engagements
""Bobby Grich would be a star for any other club in the big leagues" Winnipeg Whip Mgr. Clyde McCullough. When the California Angels topped the Kansas City Royals at home and clinched the first division title in franchise history so happy was the clubhouse in celebration that when former President Richard Nixon came out to the clubhouse to congratulate them. Bobby Grich dumped a can of beer over Nixon's head after the Angels clinched the division 1979. "Bobby Grich is as good as any and probably the best ballplayer in the American League." Earl Weaver "I never did anything on a national"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-22T12:21Z 27.2K followers, 1506 engagements
""They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again" Casey Stengel Stengel spent over XX years with Yankees winning TEN pennants AND SEVEN World Series. The Pirates defeated Yankees in60. Yankees fired Stengel following the defeat. They stated that at seventy years old Stengel was too old to manage. Art by Andrea Lavoie"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-22T18:07Z 27.2K followers, 1681 engagements
""The game was two hours with the commercials. I wish they did that now." Yogi Berra after he and Don Larson watched a tape of Larson's perfect 1956 World Series game telecast. During Don Larsens perfect game he did not shake off one of the XX pitches Yogi Berra called. Three batteries from three Yankee perfect games. Joe Girardi & David Cone (July XX 1999) Don Larsen & Yogi Berra (October X 1956) David Wells & Jorge Posada (May XX 1998)"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-22T18:11Z 27.2K followers, 1706 engagements
""Willie Mays. Arguably baseballs greatest player eating breakfast with his landlady in his tiny Harlem apartment in 1954. Mrs. Ann Goodsby who cooks does his laundry and generally takes care of the young star. The same year he won the MVP award in Americas most popular sport." David and Anna Goosby lived at St Nicholas Ave and 151st St. Mrs. Goosby would actually have to call Willie Mays in to supper when he was playing stickball in the street. Wiilie Mays would occasionally go to nightclubs but unlike his contemporaries Mickey Mantle and Billy Martin Mays rarely drank alcohol and never had"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-23T11:35Z 27.2K followers, 3320 engagements
""I honestly felt it would be all right to play both sports for a number of years" Dick Groat "Your legs wont take the pounding of playing two sports on a pro level. You better make a choice" Branch Rickey trying to sign Dick Groat "Baseballs a sure thing. The NBA were not sure where thats going to go". Dick Groats Dad In 1952 Dick Groats 48-point performance became single-game scoring record for a Duke player. The record would stand for XX years. Branch Rickey wanted to sign him then offering to put him in the Pirates lineup the next night if he signed a contract on the spot. Groatrefused. In"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-07-13T12:03Z 27.2K followers, 9513 engagements
""I honestly felt it would be all right to play both sports for a number of years" Dick Groat "Your legs wont take the pounding of playing two sports on a pro level. You better make a choice" Branch Rickey trying to sign Dick Groat "Baseballs a sure thing. The NBA were not sure where thats going to go". Martin Groat Dick Groats Dad. In 1952 Dick Groats 48-point performance became single-game scoring record for a Duke basketball player. The record would stand for XX years. Branch Rickey wanted to sign him then offering to put him in the Pirates lineup the next night if he signed a contract on"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-09-08T11:06Z 27.2K followers, 19.9K 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 27.2K followers, 175.6K engagements
"Legend has it that when critics of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant complained to President Abraham Lincoln about Grant's drinking Lincoln replied "I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals." Grant's favorite brand is said to be "Old Crow" a Kentucky straight bourbon whiskey that is still sold today. "Ulysses S. Grant as President hosted the first all-professional team Cincinnati Red Stockings at the White House in 1869. Also a base ball match in 1874 pitting the rivals Yale and Harvard "nines" against each other."
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-21T10:58Z 27.2K followers, 11.2K engagements
""I remember hearing how Mantle had lost a step and was a little past his prime. But when he got me in the 9th going the other way with a shot to left-center and hitting that game winner earlier in the series I couldn't help but think how good this guy truly was.and he was. Bob Gibson on Mickey Mantle's 18th and final World Series home run. Game X World Series 1964"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-21T11:25Z 27.2K followers, 2962 engagements
""Count Basie who was a friend of mine invited me to sit down with him at the "Subway" club in Kansas City. This kid came in to the club with a horn Basie said to let him play. The kid started blowing and he was making some sounds that you never heard before. The kid turned out to be Charlie Parker. We didnt know what he was playing we just knew it was NEW." Buck ONeil"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-22T12:07Z 27.2K followers, 2177 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 2025-10-22T12:10Z 27.2K followers, 16K engagements
"Bob Gibson was named MVP of the 1964 World Series and awarded a new Corvette as a prize. A few days after the series ended Gibson was driving from St. Louis back to Omaha when he was pulled over by a cop in a small Missouri town. The cop demanded to see the Title of the car. Gibson didnt have one he explained because the car was brand new. He asked the cop why hed been stopped and the cop said there had been a report of a stolen Corvette just like the one Gibson was driving. Bob Gibson couldnt restrain himself and blurted out: Bullshit. Gibson told the cop he just didnt think a Black man"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-22T12:16Z 27.2K followers, 88.4K engagements
""Stan Musial is the nicest man I ever met in baseball. And to be honest I can't relate to that. I never knew that nice and baseball went together." Bob Gibson"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-22T18:09Z 27.2K followers, 8883 engagements
""It was such a glorious day and baseball is a revitalization of peoples lives. When the 'Season Opener' comes around theres flowers and sunshine and fresh air and ivy and friendship. I mean this is the beginning of peoples lives" Ernie Banks 'Opening Day'"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-22T18:14Z 27.2K followers, 1762 engagements
"At the age of XX Joe DiMaggio was sitting with the American League president and ex-teammate Dr. Bobby Brown at Candlestick Park when the 1989 San Francisco earthquake hit. DiMaggio was next spotted seeking aid at a Red Cross shelter holding garbage bags in his hands. My home has been pretty badly damaged DiMaggio said "and right now they wont let me back in. They won't allow it. Richard Cramer wrote in his book "Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life' that the garbage bags DiMaggio was holding were full of about $600000 in cash from memorabilia signings. The Yankee Clipper was known for trusting"
X Link @Jimfrombaseball 2025-10-23T11:47Z 27.2K followers, 1738 engagements
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