#  @Jimfrombaseball Jim Koenigsberger Jim Koenigsberger posts on X about in the, joe, the first, world series the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-------] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::731624499112771585/interactions)  - [--] Week [-------] -0.93% - [--] Month [---------] +178% - [--] Months [----------] +57% - [--] Year [----------] -50% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::731624499112771585/posts_active)  - [--] Week [---] +3% - [--] Month [---] +55% - [--] Months [-----] +73% - [--] Year [-----] -7.50% ### Followers: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::731624499112771585/followers)  - [--] Week [------] +0.31% - [--] Month [------] +2.20% - [--] Months [------] +12% - [--] Year [------] +30% ### CreatorRank: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::731624499112771585/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [mlb](/list/mlb) #1105 [countries](/list/countries) 5.85% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) 3.9% [finance](/list/finance) 3.41% [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) #2680 [nfl](/list/nfl) 1.95% [stocks](/list/stocks) 0.98% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) 0.98% [nba](/list/nba) 0.49% **Social topic influence** [in the](/topic/in-the) 11.22%, [joe](/topic/joe) #1758, [the first](/topic/the-first) 10.24%, [world series](/topic/world-series) #143, [new york](/topic/new-york) #2930, [bob](/topic/bob) #1525, [red](/topic/red) #505, [if you](/topic/if-you) 3.9%, [gibson](/topic/gibson) #855, [history](/topic/history) 3.41% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@mickeygall66598](/creator/undefined) [@jonchopwood](/creator/undefined) [@23brookside](/creator/undefined) [@bigredruckus](/creator/undefined) [@peabodynobis](/creator/undefined) [@godveveryone](/creator/undefined) [@bobpagesports](/creator/undefined) [@sigg20](/creator/undefined) [@robertinno53](/creator/undefined) [@bakojer](/creator/undefined) [@polarginger](/creator/undefined) [@jamesmdemarco](/creator/undefined) [@goslintodd](/creator/undefined) [@x5ms2](/creator/undefined) [@billg8susa](/creator/undefined) [@ken_ragsdale](/creator/undefined) [@ghostface2021b](/creator/undefined) [@writer53572](/creator/undefined) [@johnbea59958156](/creator/undefined) [@johnnypendejo](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours ""A man in Chicago a Cubs fan wakes up one morning to find a bear on his roof. So he looks on Google and sure enough. There's an ad for "The Chicago Bear Removers." He calls the number and the man says he'll be over in [--] minutes. The bear remover arrives and gets out of his van. He's got a ladder a baseball bat 12-gauge shotgun and a very mean heavily scarred huge old pit bull. "What are you going to do" the homeowner asks. "I'm going to put this ladder up against the roof then I'm going to go up there and Ill knock the bear off the roof with this baseball bat. When the bear falls off the" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2019374436718158086) 2026-02-05T11:35Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements ""The day after we had pitched a game it was our duty to stand at the gate and afterwards to count the tickets. I remember counting [-----] tickets one day at the Polo Grounds in New York." 'Kid' Nichols. The end of Polo Grounds started in [----] when New York City administration wanted to claim the area. At the last baseball game on September [------] only [----] fans attended it. The stadium was officially closed on December [--] [----] and demolition began on April [--] [----]. The demolition workers wore New York Giants jerseys. And all I see is the Willie Mays catch" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2022390119009759358) 2026-02-13T19:19Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements ""I really saw the ball well all year. I owe my success to expansion pitching a short right field fence and my hollow bats." Norm Cash Cash openly admitted to using an illegal corked bat during the [----] season among others. He drilled a hole in his bats and filled it with a mixture of sawdust cork and glue an art that was taught to him in the minor leagues. Norm Cash on Graig Nettles saying he had no idea his bat was corked that a fan had given it to him. "Why that lying sonofabitch. I ought to know. I used a hollow bat my whole career." But Norm surely not in [----] the year you hit .361 with" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2022489479362019542) 2026-02-14T01:54Z 29.3K followers, 10.4K engagements ""Information is not knowledge." Albert Einstein In [----] Josh Gibson hit .467 with [--] home runs in [---] games against all levels of competition. In [----] Josh Gibson also played for at least three teams in one year when he played for the Homestead Grays and the Pittsburgh Crawfords in the United States and also played in the Dominican League. In addition to these U.S. and Dominican summer leagues Josh Gibson also played in the Cuban Winter League that same year. Josh Gibson served as the first manager of the 'Cangrejeros de Santurce' at [--] years old one of the most historic franchises of the" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2022275398768165204) 2026-02-13T11:43Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements ""Late in the game I scooped up an ordinary ground ball and threw it over to the pitcher covering first base. It was the same kind of play I had made several hundred times in my big league career just a routine play. But Bill Dickey and Joe Gordon got around me and slapped me on the back and said "Great going Lou" and "Nice stop big boy." They meant it to be kind but it hurt worse than any bawling out I ever received in baseball. They were saying "great stop" because I had fielded a grounder. I decided then and there I would ask Mgr. McCarthy to take me out of the lineup". Lou Gehrig. "I" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2022277774933639476) 2026-02-13T11:52Z 29.3K followers, 11.4K engagements ""Today we must balance the tears of sorrow with the tears of joy. Mix the bitter with the sweet in death and life. Jackie as a figure in history was a rock in the water creating concentric circles and ripples of new possibility. He was medicine. He was immunized by God from catching the diseases that he fought. The Lord's arms of protection enabled him to go through dangers seen and unseen and he had the capacity to wear glory with grace. Jackie's body was a temple of God. An instrument of peace. We would watch him disappear into nothingness and stand back as spectators and watch the" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2022389652338999638) 2026-02-13T19:17Z 29.3K followers, [---] engagements "Hold up there cowboy. John Smoltz to the Atlanta Braves for veteran Doyle Alexander in [----] Tigers trading Jim Bunning was one of the dumbest trades in Tigers history. Up there with trading Verlander Billy Pierce Heinie Manush Hank Greenberg and a few more. Tigers trading Jim Bunning was one of the dumbest trades in Tigers history. Up there with trading Verlander Billy Pierce Heinie Manush Hank Greenberg and a few more" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2022494065749836030) 2026-02-14T02:12Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements "In the 1970s the Oakland Athletics introduced ball girls girls who would sit in foul territory near the baselines to retrieve baseballs grounded foul by batters. With the help of her sister who was then a secretary at the As offices she was one of the first ones hired. At [--] worked as one of first ball girls for the As. She was paid $5 an hour. She also worked at Marine World where she water-skied as part of the human pyramid and swam with the dolphins. She instituted a milk-and-cookies break for the umpires. "The fans who sat behind me were like my adoptive parents they always worried if I" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2004530348810478066) 2025-12-26T12:30Z 29.3K followers, 27.7K engagements "Nobody has won thirty games in a season since Denny McLain did in [----]. No other pitcher has drunk as many Pepsi-Colas broken as many team rules or played the organ as famously as McLain did. And there has never been another World Series game in which both starting pitchers had won the Cy Young AND the MVP awards that year". Bob Gibson. Denny McLain fielding a Bob Gibson grounder. Game [--] [----] World Series. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020109411209953643 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020109411209953643" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2020109411209953643) 2026-02-07T12:16Z 29.3K followers, 12.7K engagements ""I believe in the Church of Baseball. I've tried all the major religions and most of the minor ones. I've worshipped Buddha Allah Brahma Vishnu Siva trees mushrooms and Isadora Duncan. I know things. For instance there are [---] beads in a Catholic rosary and there are [---] stitches in a baseball. When I learned that I gave Jesus a chance. But it just didn't work out between us. The Lord laid too much guilt on me. I prefer metaphysics to theology. You see there's no guilt in baseball and it's never boring. Which makes it like sex. There's never been a ballplayer slept with me who didn't have the" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2021551228937699644) 2026-02-11T11:45Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements ""Harry Frazee became the owner of the Red Sox in [----] and before long he sold off all of our best players and ruined the team. Sold them all to the Yankees - Ernie Shore Duffy Lewis Dutch Leonard Carl Mays Babe Ruth. Then Wally Schang and Herb Pennock and Joe Dugan and Sam Jones. I was disgusted. The Yankee dynasty of the 1920's was three-quarters of the Red Sox of a few years before. All Frazee wanted was the money". Harry Hooper. In [----] Babe Ruth was a rising star contributing [--] wins with a [----] ERA while also showing promise as a hitter. Rube Foster had a standout season going 19-8 with" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2022278396672143530) 2026-02-13T11:55Z 29.3K followers, [---] engagements "Charlie Brown: "Well tomorrow starts another baseball season and." Linus: "I've worked up a few statistics about our baseball team Charlie Brown. I think you'll find they have something to say to all of us." Lucy van Pelt: "I'll *bet* they have a lot to say" Charlie Brown: "What do they have to say" Linus: "Well last year our opponents scored [----] runs to our total of six runs. They made [----] hits to our [--] hits. And they made four errors to our [---] errors. And while we were losing [---] straight games we." R.I.P. Sparky https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022285098922414280" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2022285098922414280) 2026-02-13T12:21Z 29.3K followers, [---] engagements ""There were around [---] major-league baseball players when Willie Stargell and I played. Willie Stargell was the only person who was liked by the other [---] players. Not one person ever disliked Willie. Some disliked me or Pete Rose or other players but not Willie." Joe Morgan. Nine different players in Major League history have hit one home run over the roof at Forbes Field. Willie Stargell did it seven times. "Pittsburgh isn't fancy but it is real. It's working town and money doesn't come easy. I feel as much part of this City as the cobblestone streets and the steel mills. People in this" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2022285876651237556) 2026-02-13T12:24Z 29.3K followers, 28.4K engagements ""I think the next night in [----] we got rained out. I found out where Morgana was dancing. And so I went there I talked to the bouncer at the place and I said Hey Morganna came up and kissed me last night in front of [-----] people. I wanted to run up on stage and kiss her tonight. It was a surprise to her when I did it and weve been best friends ever since and I get Christmas cards from her and her family." George Brett. By [----] Morgana 'The Kissing Bandit' had kissed [--] MLB baseball players [--] NBA players and dozens of minor league baseball basketball and hockey players plus various umpires" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2022287403277258996) 2026-02-13T12:31Z 29.3K followers, 31.8K engagements ""We won the World Series before it even got started. The Pirates were the other club and the first two games were scheduled for Forbes Field. Naturally we showed up a day early and worked out in the strange park and we won the Series during that workout. We really put on a show. Lou and I banged ball after ball into the right field stands and I finally knocked one out of the park in right center. Bob Meusel and Tony Lazzeri kept hammering balls into the left field seats. One by one the Pirates got up and left the park. Some of them were shaking their heads when we last saw them." Babe Ruth." [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2022644409502740768) 2026-02-14T12:09Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements ""Carl Yastrzemski is a dull boring potato farmer from Long Island who just happened to be a great ballplayer. But he was the worst dresser in organized baseball. He made Inspector Clouseau look like a candidate for Mr. Blackwell's list of "Best-Dressed Men". He had the same London Fog raincoat during his entire career. We'd throw it in trashcans all around the league and somehow it mysteriously made its way back. Well Carl is number [--]. So when he lies down for a nap the number turns on its side and becomes infinity. Every time he lies down and he recharges himself." Bill Lee. Living close to" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2022651759668220349) 2026-02-14T12:38Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements ""Love is the most important thing in the world but baseball is pretty good too." Yogi Berra. "Carrying Her Books for Her." Hy Hintermeister [----]. Happy Valentines Day" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2022748681557205218) 2026-02-14T19:04Z 29.3K followers, [---] engagements "No one hit home runs the way Babe Ruth did. They were something special. They were like homing pigeons. The ball would leave the bat pause briefly and suddenly gain its bearings then take off for the stands." Lefty Gomez With Babe Ruth Exhibition game Mobile" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2022751602881204421) 2026-02-14T19:15Z 29.3K followers, [----] 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) 2025-01-19T13:21Z 29.3K followers, 15.7K engagements ""The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end of a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest players has engaged in a variety of acts which have stained the game and he must now live with the consequences of those acts. There is absolutely no deal for reinstatement." A. Bartlett Giamatti August [--] [----]. "As all of us are aware and no one more than I Bart had a singular skill as a public speaker. He spoke well because he thought so well. But I point out to you that the most often quoted remark of Bart's brief tenure as Commissioner is a very simple declarative sentence. That" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1960300082370085286) 2025-08-26T11:15Z 29.2K followers, 15.9K engagements "On September [--] [----] the Yankees' Graig Nettles hit a home run against the Detroit Tigers. The next time up he hit a broken-bat single. Tigers catcher Bill Freehan scrambled for the six superballs that came bouncing out. "I didn't know there was anything wrong with the bat" Nettles said after the game. "That was the first time I used it. Some Yankees fan in Chicago gave it to me and said it would bring me good luck. There's no brand name on it or anything. Maybe the guy made it himself. It had been in the bat rack and I picked it up by mistake because it looked like the bat I had been using" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1962839431288611238) 2025-09-02T11:26Z 29.3K followers, [----] 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) 2025-09-08T11:02Z 29.2K 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) 2025-09-29T20:37Z 29.2K followers, 37.5K engagements "He built golf course at Vero Beach so black players who couldnt play on local courses could play. Blacks and whites always roomed together on Dodgers when other clubs werent doing this. On Dodger plane you got fed but still got your meal money". Maury Wills on Walter OMalley. "I heard all the black people buzzing about this man in Brooklyn named Jackie Robinson. I asked who he was and they told me. Right then I said 'I want to play for the Dodgers someday.' That was my childhood dream". Maury Wills steals his 104th and final base of the season 1962" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1996564431170412798) 2025-12-04T12:57Z 29.3K followers, 27K engagements ""Willie Mays who had just turned [--] years old two weeks earlier was sitting in a movie theatrein Sioux City Iowa with his Minneapolis Millers teammate Ray Dandridge who was still toiling in the minors at [--]. The moviewas "Lightning Strikes Twice" a drama about a New York actress who falls for a dude ranch owner recently acquitted of murdering his wife. It was May [--] [----]. Suddenly an announcement pierced the darkened theatre. "Willie Mays please report to the office." At the theatre office Mays found his Minneapolis manager Tommy Heath waiting for him. "Come with me right away" Heath told the" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2004997669442502971) 2025-12-27T19:27Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements ""God please please dont let me die right here in the dirt at home plate at Fenway". Tony Conigliaro. "It was a high fastball. He didnt move at all. He didnt even flinch jerk his head or anything. It was hard to sit there and take a pitch like that. When I found out how serious it was I tried to visit him at the hospital but they were only letting the family in. I never had a chance to see him or say anything to him after that. Pitcher Jack Hamilton. Life went downhill after baseball. While being driven to the airport in [----] Tony suffered debilitating heart attack. Soon after suffered stroke" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2009346627388232063) 2026-01-08T19:29Z 29.2K followers, 10.2K engagements ""I was born and raised in New York born in the Bronx and grew up in Washington Heights. Our school was about [--] 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" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2012497073472491966) 2026-01-17T12:07Z 29.3K followers, 16.3K engagements "On November [--] [----] Chuck Connors of the Boston Celtics becomes the first player in professional basketball to shatter a backboard which he does during warmups. The game was delayed over an hour. The Celtics would lose to the Chicago Stags 57-55. Connors was one of only [--] athletes in the history of American professional sports to have played in both Major League Baseball (Brooklyn Dodgers [----] Chicago Cubs 1951) and the National Basketball Association (Boston Celtics 19461948). Connors was also drafted by Chicago Bears of the NFL but never played for them. Chuck Connors would be best" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2013779761705721873) 2026-01-21T01:04Z 29.2K followers, 189.6K engagements ""It is a joke. The game is becoming a freaking joke because of the nerds who are running it. These guys played rotisserie baseball at Harvard or wherever the f--- they went and they thought they figured the f---ing game out. They don't know s---. A bunch of f---ing nerds running the game. You can't slide into second base. You can't take out the f---ing catcher because Posey was in the wrong position and they are going to change all the rules. You can't pitch inside anymore. I'd like to knock some of these f---ers on their ass. Ryan Braun is a f---ing steroid user. He gets a standing ovation" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2013958579322028413) 2026-01-21T12:55Z 29.3K followers, 60.3K engagements ""When I was a boy growing up in Cuba Luis Tiant was a National Hero. Now I'm [--] and he's 37." Tony Perez. "I've never heard anything like that "Loo-Eee Loo-Eee Loo-Eee" chanting in Fenway Park in my life. But I'll tell you one thing: Luis Tiant deserved every bit of it." Carl Yastrzemski. "Luis Tiant and I would each be fighting for thirty wins if Tiant had our kind of hitting to go with his kind of pitching" Denny McLain. Indians pitcher Luis Tiant once struck out [--] Minnesota Twins in [--] innings. In [----] many remember 31-game winner Denny McLain. Some forget that the 21-game winner Luis" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2014314125359288364) 2026-01-22T12:28Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements "On September [--] [----] the Yankees' Graig Nettles hit a home run against the Detroit Tigers. The next time up he hit a broken-bat single. The Tigers catcher Bill Freehan scrambled for the six superballs that came bouncing out. "I didn't know there was anything wrong with the bat" Nettles said after the game. "That was the first time I used it. Some Yankees fan in Chicago gave it to me and said it would bring me good luck. There's no brand name on it or anything. Maybe the guy made it himself. It had been in the bat rack and I picked it up by mistake because it looked like the bat I had been" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2014780677955244274) 2026-01-23T19:22Z 29.3K followers, 22.3K 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 base 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" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2015054287823688121) 2026-01-24T13:29Z 29.2K followers, 348.3K engagements ""I'll never forget that first night with the team. Going to the ballpark on the bus was the hardest [--] minutes of my life. I had to walk down that aisle between all the players. I really didn't know too much about the Detroit Tigers at that time. All of a sudden I'm in the major leagues and we're travelling from town to town. I see the other players dressing different every day. I've got only one suit and I keep wearing it over and over. I'm really embarrassed." Al Kaline. At Comiskey the Tigers Al Kaline is knocked out cold from a Bob Shaw pitch in the sixth inning during the Tigers 7-1 win" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2015054923805622516) 2026-01-24T13:31Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements ""It was like watching someone drown. If it's true that you learn from adversity then I must be the smartest son of a bitch in the world." Gene Mauch managing the [----] Philadelphia Phillies during their historic collapse from a 6.5-game lead with [--] games left. Jim Bunning started on September [--] [--] [--] [--] [--] and [--] and October [--]. Four games down the stretch that he started on just [--] days' rest and [--] on [--] days' rest. Jim Bunning went 19-8 with [----] ERA. [----] Pennant Race "Gene Mauch confused us. All season he screamed yelled and hollered and threw things around the clubhouse then during the" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2016140804616544531) 2026-01-27T13:26Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements "Bill Veeck fired Rogers Hornsby midway through the [----] season. The players celebrated by sending Bill Veeck a trophy calling it The greatest play since the Emancipation Proclamation. @retired_marine1 @Jimfrombaseball When Hornsby alienated Bill Veeck and got fired as the manager of the St. Louis Browns Browns players led by pitcher Ned Garver chipped in to purchase an engraved thank you trophy which they gave Veeck. @retired_marine1 @Jimfrombaseball When Hornsby alienated Bill Veeck and got fired as the manager of the St. Louis Browns Browns players led by pitcher Ned Garver chipped in to" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2016302376995496160) 2026-01-28T00:08Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements ""Between me and my roommate we've hit [---] Major League home runs." Bob Uecker. Roomed with Eddie Mathews and had only one home run" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2016591290872267221) 2026-01-28T19:16Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements ""Hank Bauer played on some of the greatest teams that ever played and brought the Baltimore Orioles their first World Series title. That's saying something. He was a players' manager. He didn't over complicate things. He was my first manager in the major leagues. He gave me my first opportunity in [----] when he could have kept other people. I was lucky; he was a Jim Palmer fan. You can't get in the Hall of Fame without your first chance." Jim Palmer [--] years old [----]. Palmer pitched nearly [----] innings in his career and never gave up a grand slam or back to back home runs. Palmers [----] season" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2017212977225568269) 2026-01-30T12:27Z 29.3K followers, [----] 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 [--] a.m. back in New York. "We're staying at a nice hotel" he said "and all the rooms are round." [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2017215348022329837) 2026-01-30T12:36Z 29.2K followers, 34.3K engagements ""I imagine myself as the broadcaster for a Cubs-White Sox World Series a Series that would last seven games with the final game going extra innings before being suspended because of darkness at Wrigley Field." Jack Brickhouse. "We came out of the dugout for opening day and saw a fan holding up a sign saying Wait Till Next Year. Moe Drabowsky on the late 1950s Cubs "The longest running daytime soap opera in history and the only one without a doctor in it". Arne Harris on Cub broadcasts. "The greatest man to play on a wretched team since Robert E. Lee" Scott Simon on Ernie Banks." [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2017312269986914518) 2026-01-30T19:01Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements ""The day before Bob Gibson had dusted Willie Mays and almost beaned him. The next day Willie Mays had Bob Gibson and his former teammate Bill White visit his home in San Francisco. When Mays answered the door he welcomed Bill White but asked who was that with him. White says Bob Gibson. Mays didnt recognize him since Gibson wore glasses away from the field. "I was wearing glasses at the time but I never did wear 'em on the field. When Willie opened his front door I'm standing behind Bill White and Mays says 'Who is that ' "Bill says 'That's Gibson.' "Mays said 'You wear glasses Man you gonna" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2017314456381100059) 2026-01-30T19:10Z 29.2K followers, 31.3K engagements ""When I was a kid man my Dad used to buy me the Ted Williams glove at Sears with the Ted Williams shoes with the eight stripes on 'em. I used to play Little League and I was Ted Williams-ed out. I was a contact hitter my whole career but I learned how to handle the ball inside. And Ted Williams played a big part in that. He gave me the advice on how to handle inside pitches. The only thing I want people to say about me is that I played the game the way it should be played. What I've always wanted to do is be a complete player. This is as close as I've ever come to it" Tony Gwynn. "A Baseball" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2017578022883213739) 2026-01-31T12:37Z 29.2K followers, [----] 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. Mantle 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](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2017584738270081196) 2026-01-31T13:04Z 29.2K followers, 19.3K engagements ""It's a wierd scene. I keep telling myself don't get cocky. Give your services to press and media be nice to the kids throw a baseball into the stands once in a while. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters asking you about Vietnam and race relations. I think I have signed some scrap of paper for every man woman and child in the United States. What do they do with all those scraps of paper with my signature on it Vida Blue. "He was left-handed. God he threw hard as hell. He was the true definition of a power pitcher. I remember his first games in the" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2017683135803088985) 2026-01-31T19:35Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements "Asked in the late 1950's what he would hit if he played today Ty Cobb replied "about .275." When the interviewer expressed shock Cobb added "I am almost [--] years old". Ty Cobb. Professional Baseball Player. Royston Georgia [----] @Jimfrombaseball In the movie Cobb when he was asked how he would do against todays pitchers. It went something like this; he said I would probably hit around .260. The guy then asked him if todays pitchers were that much better. He replied well Im [--] yrs old. Is that a true story @Jimfrombaseball In the movie Cobb when he was asked how he would do against todays" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2017752723232289012) 2026-02-01T00:11Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements ""Right now Yogi Berra does about everything wrong but Casey Stengel warned me about that. The main thing is Berra has speed and agility behind the plate and a strong enough arm. He just needs to be taught to throw properly. I know he can hit. I'd say Berra has the makings of a good catcher. I won't say great but certainly a good one." Bill Dickey. "Yogi Berra" Earl Mayan [----]. "I knew I was going to take the wrong train so I left early." Yogi Berra Berra and his Yankees teammate Joe DiMaggio are the only players to hit [---] or more home runs while striking out fewer than [---] times in their" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2017940786294243475) 2026-02-01T12:39Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements ""I never got anything out of the game but what it paid me this is the luckiest thing that ever happened to me in my life. I couldnt be happier." Dickey Kerr. In [----] while managing the "Daytona Beach Islanders" in the Florida State League one of Dickey Kerrs pitchers came up with a sore arm. Being fairly decent with a bat Dickey Kerr convinced him to become an outfielder. The pitcher was Stan Musial. "I convinced him that he wasnt much of pitcher. As a batter he was a natural. You might say Stan Musial was million dollar accident." Dickey Kerr. During spring training in [----] Mgr. Dickey Kerr" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2017943623837335690) 2026-02-01T12:50Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements ""I couldnt have ever seen this happening growing up. Dont get up Mr. Mays youre getting up for me" The two exchanged pleasantries as cameras snapped. "Enjoy this" Mays told Tim Lincecum. Tim Lincecum was a 5'9" 170-pound starting pitcher that looked more like he belonged on a Little League field than on a major league mound. "Tim Lincecum made pitching look effortless. After the game hed joked about needing to hurry home to feed his goldfish and catch the latest episode of his favorite anime. Yet behind that unassuming exterior was a pitcher who could make a baseball move like no other" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2017946926851756421) 2026-02-01T13:03Z 29.2K followers, 13K engagements ""The fact that Lou Gehrig was able to play that whole season was just amazing. Your body is beginning to shut down. Your muscles are getting disconnected from your brain. And yet he was able to play every single game. Lou Gehrig still had [--] home runs he still drove in [---] and he was still the first baseman on a team that won the World Series. How does he do that How does anybody do that You can make an argument that its the greatest individual performance in baseball history." Last Ride of the Iron Horse. Dan Joseph. "You have to get knocked down to realize how people really feel about you." [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2018290298133078433) 2026-02-02T11:47Z 29.3K followers, 12.4K engagements "11-year-old Robert Cotter caught a foul ball one day at a Philadelphia Phillies game and like any fan refused to give it back even when team officials demanded it. The consequences were severe. The team had the boy arrested not only for keeping the property but also after accusing him of sneaking in to the game without paying for his ticket. Robert Cotter was forced to spend an entire night in jail until being freed the next day when a sympathetic judge found that it was entirely reasonable that a kid could keep a foul ball at a baseball game. And besides the judge noted he made a really good" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2018291837564334234) 2026-02-02T11:54Z 29.3K followers, 19.6K engagements "At the age of [--] Joe DiMaggio was sitting with the American League President and ex-teammate Dr. Bobby Brown at Candlestick Park when the [----] San Francisco earthquake hit. Joe 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" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2018652959874146489) 2026-02-03T11:49Z 29.3K followers, 36.2K engagements "If it happened to me I would have been useless out there. That was enough to take the starch out of anyone. Ted Williams citing a mission that Jerry Coleman flew deep into North Korea when Colemans best friend and roommate Major Max Harper was shot down in front of him. Coleman watched the plane crash. There was nothing Jerry Coleman could do but finish the mission. "There were times when you were flying up there and realized that all you were doing was practising death. If my country needed me I was ready. Besides the highlight of my life had always been even including baseball flying for" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2018653785061527627) 2026-02-03T11:52Z 29.3K followers, 11.9K engagements ""Early in his 16-year major league career Johnny Callison was labelled 'the next Mickey Mantle.' His manager with the Phillies Gene Mauch said Callison could 'run throw field and hit with power. There's nothing he can't do well on the ball field.' These encomiums proved burdens that the always sensitive Callison found difficult to live up to. His career spent briefly with the Chicago White Sox then for ten years with the Phillies before finishing with short stays with the Cubs and Yankees was marked by what-ifs and what might have beens." "The Year of the Blue Snow: The [----] Philadelphia" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2018655537156485474) 2026-02-03T11:59Z 29.2K followers, 19.8K engagements ""Nobody has won [--] games since Denny McLain. No other pitcher has drunk as many Pepsi-Colas broken as many team rules and played the organ as famously as McLain did. And there has never been another World Series game in which both starting pitchers had won the Cy Young and the MVP awards. Bob Gibson They only had one pitcher. That was Gibson. The rest of them werent very good. We were surprised at how bad their pitching was. But what St. Louis did is much like what we did. Play fundamentally sound baseball. If you play the game soundly you will win. Denny McLain on Bob Gibson." [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2018656307130024083) 2026-02-03T12:02Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements "When the Astros snatched Don Sutton up in [----] with a four-year $3.1 million offer it was impossible for Tommy Lasorda not to take it personally. Don Sutton had been a Walter Alston man publicly lobbying for coach Jeff Torborg to replace the storied manager in [----] even when Lasorda was all but a lock for the position. I just dont believe that I could play for a manager whos a headline grabber who isnt honest Sutton said at the time later refusing to become one of Lasordas bobos. Things grew so heated that Lasorda challenged Sutton to settle their differences with fists. The pitcher declined." [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2018783631951696339) 2026-02-03T20:28Z 29.3K followers, 55.6K engagements "Great work @Jimfrombaseball Wow. 🥰 I loved him as a 5th grader growing up in Mansfield OH when he was playing for Birdie T. ⚾ https://t.co/9vBLJDyS8D @Jimfrombaseball Wow. 🥰 I loved him as a 5th grader growing up in Mansfield OH when he was playing for Birdie T. ⚾ https://t.co/9vBLJDyS8D" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2018795911888117858) 2026-02-03T21:17Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements ""In the [----] World Series despite the hostility between the Yankees and the Braves Yogi Berra went out of his way to learn his experience to [--] year-old Henry Aaron who after all had hit only .322 that season. "Hank" Yogi reminded the [----] National League's Batting Champ in a tone of avuncular concern "you need to hold the bat so you can read the label. You're gonna break that bat. You've to to be able to read the label." "Didn't come up here to read" Aaron calmly replied. Berra and Aaron Spring Training. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019018513508184247" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2019018513508184247) 2026-02-04T12:01Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements ""I heard a lot about the Negro Leagues and then I started listening to the Detroit Tigers baseball games. I had a couple of favorites Charlie Gehringer and Hank Greenberg. My father would never take me to the games because of the racial situation. But whenever a Black team came to town with Satchel Paige Turkey Stearnes and some of those guys he would take me to the games. We had a park called Mack Park where the Detroit Stars played. When that burned down they moved to Hamtramck Stadium and I often went to see games when I was quite young. There were big crowds and on Sundays people would" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2019135429035905154) 2026-02-04T19:46Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements ""The Giants were playing the Dodgers at Ebbetts Field. The Giants were ahead by one run. Two outs. Bottom of the ninth. Bases loaded. And Bobby Morgan the young third baseman for the Dodgers hit a high line drive to the gap in left-center field. Your first thought was that it was an extra-base hit and the Dodgers were going to win it. But Willie Mays went racing to the warning track which was made of gravel in those days and made a diving full-extension catch as the ball was sinking. Then after the catch he bounced on his chest right into the base of the concrete wall and knocked himself" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2019137483615912383) 2026-02-04T19:54Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements ""I guess you could say that I'm the redemption of the fat man. A guy will be watching me on TV and see that I don't look in any better shape than he is. 'Hey Maude' he'll holler. 'Get a load of this guy. And he's a 20-game winner. Get me another beer'". Mickey Lolich Tigers pitcher Mickey Lolich poses with new teammate Frank Howard in [----]. Howard is wearing a Lolich jersey because a larger jersey could not be ordered in time for Detroits game against the Oakland As. Howard had been sold by the Texas Rangers to the Tigers. Lolich Charlie Silvera Howard. Go easy" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2019139692894253122) 2026-02-04T20:03Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements "On June [--] [----] Babe Ruth took the mound against the Washington Senators and walked the leadoff hitter Ray Morgan. As Morgan took his free pass to first base Babe Ruth began jawing with Umpire Brick Owens. Get in there and pitch the umpire ordered. Open your eyes and keep them open Ruth yelled. Get in and pitch or I will run you out of there Owens warned. You run me out and I will come in and bust you on the nose the Babe replied. Ruth continued to argue balls and strikes with home plate umpire Brick Owens so vociferously that he was ejected from the game. Ruth rushed to the plate to argue." [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2019375286563864881) 2026-02-05T11:39Z 29.2K followers, 10.2K engagements ""One day after striking out he came into dugout and kicked ball bag. It really hurt. He sat down and sweat popped out on his forehead. He clenched his fists without ever saying a word. Everybody in the dugout wanted to howl but he was a god. You don't laugh at gods." Jerry Coleman on Joe DiMaggio "There was an aura about him. He walked like no one else walked. He did things so easily. He was immaculate in everything he did. Kings of State wanted to meet him and be with him. He carried himself so well. He could fit in any place in the world." Phil Rizzuto. Joe DiMaggio first came under HOF" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2019375659924009181) 2026-02-05T11:40Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements ""Billy Martin said I was his workhorse and he gave me a load of confidence. I liked the guy and he made all the difference for me in my career. He was the best manager I ever played for. He knew what was going on and was always two innings ahead of the other manager. One game I got out of the inning and when I walked into dugout Martin said Who theF***were you looking at I said I was getting shelled thought you might make a move. Billy said dont you remember I said that you are in game until at least sixth no matter what score is I never used ice. I would stand in the shower after a game soak" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2019377341772808579) 2026-02-05T11:47Z 29.3K followers, 12K engagements "Dont you know Im God" Muhammad Ali. God you in the wrong place tonight. Joe Frazier. "The Fight of the Century" 1971" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2019378377040245033) 2026-02-05T11:51Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements ""Well I just got into town about an hour ago Took a look around see which way the wind blow 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". In [----] Jim Morrisonmet Lana Elliott at "Whisky a Go-Go" in Los Angeles. After Jimhad wrecked his car and had no way home Lana took him to her Hollywood bungalow above Sunset Blvd. Jiminvited himself along to dinner with her family in Granada Hills and and enjoyed some fondue with the family. After dinner Jimplayed baseball with Lanas younger siblings." [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2019379391432700158) 2026-02-05T11:55Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements "Ron Santo hits a tremendous home run in Philadelphia 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." [----]. Neil Armstrong's first words after stepping on the moon "That's one small step for Man One giant leap for mankind" were televised to earth and heard by millions of people. But just before he re-entered the Lunar Lander he made the enigmatic remark: "Good luck Mr. Gorsky." Many people at NASA thought it was a casual remark" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2019380537266180533) 2026-02-05T12:00Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements """Schaefer is the one beer to have when you're having more than one". "'Schaefer Beer' was the official beer sponsor of the Brooklyn Dodgers from [----] until the franchise's departure for Los Angeles following the [----] season. During that span one of its advertisement was featured at the top of Ebbets Field's scoreboard on the right-field wall. The letters 'h' or the first 'e' on the wordmark lit up depending on whether the official scorer ruled that a batter reached base on a hit or an error respectively" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2019485682574774548) 2026-02-05T18:58Z 29.2K followers, [----] 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. "The night after I was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in January [----] I went out to dinner with some friends to the "River Cafe" in Brooklyn. We were dining quietly in a corner when some people recognized me and pretty soon the whole place was applauding and someone had a bottle of champagne sent to our table and toasted us. Then a young man about thirty came over to the" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2019486038398206415) 2026-02-05T18:59Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements ""It was the Black Panthers who made the death threat against me. They told me I was going to be assassinated the next night game I pitched. I had to go out there and pitch. Everyone in the ball club knew I was under a threat because there was a lot of FBI guys and snipers around the ballpark up on the roof of Tiger Stadium and things like that. Finally as I threw my last warm-up pitch before the first inning Norm Cash came over to me on the mound and said Mick I wish you a lot of luck in this game and Ill never talk to you again because two targets are harder to hit than one. And then Cash" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2019488097134674131) 2026-02-05T19:07Z 29.3K followers, 19K engagements ""Satchel Paige was the best pitcher I ever saw." Bob Feller "Satch was the greatest pitcher in baseball." Ted Williams "The best and fastest pitcher I've ever faced." Joe DiMaggio "The best right hander baseball has ever known." Bill Veeck "It starts out like a baseball and when it gets to the plate it looks like a marble." Hack Wilson "Satchel Paige was the toughest pitcher I ever faced. I couldn't do much with him. All the years I played there I never got a hit off of him. He threw fire." Buck Leonard Satchel Paige With the Kansas City Monarchs Pittsburgh Crawfords and Harlem Stars. Art by" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2019738720065253735) 2026-02-06T11:43Z 29.2K followers, 30.3K 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 the Cincinnati Red Stockings at the White House in [----]. Also a base ball match in [----] pitting the rivals Yale and Harvard "nines" against each" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2019739282227732631) 2026-02-06T11:45Z 29.2K followers, 17.7K engagements ""I copied Shoeless Joe Jackson's style because I thought he was the greatest hitter I had ever seen the greatest natural hitter I ever saw. He's the guy who made me a hitter." Babe Ruth. "I said to Eddie Collins 'Tell me about Joe Jackson'. Well I'll never forget what he did. Eddie dropped his head when I said 'Joe Jackson' and he thought for maybe three or four seconds then Eddie looked up at the ceiling shook his head and said: 'Boy what a player he was." Ted Williams. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019740627500425309 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019740627500425309" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2019740627500425309) 2026-02-06T11:51Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements ""When I first started playing ball about [----] I used a big Trapper mitt at first base. Id snag everything one-handed. In [----] they used those small gloves with the five stubby fingers and no webbing. In the movie we use the same kind. So just about the first ball hit to me in the outfield I wave everybody off and yell I got it. It looked like an easy catch. The ball bounced off that little glove and hit me right on the head. It was a very small glove not much bigger than your hand. When the ball would come to you youd put that glove on it and that thing went through the fingersand a couple" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2019742411136635108) 2026-02-06T11:58Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements ""To many uppity New Yorkers a visit to Shea Stadium was akin to sleeping in a sewer. From the blue paint peeling off the seats and the incessant noise of LaGuardia Airport jet traffic to the charmless concrete walkways and the goofy jumbo-sized apple beyond the outfield wall that glowed with every Met home run the place especially compared to palatial Yankee Stadium was a housing project surrounding a diamond. Yet it was our housing project and the Mets rolled out the red carpet for the average man." "The Bad Guys Won" Jeff Pearlman. "Nobody has ever called Shea a cathedral. In style it was" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2019742901668884820) 2026-02-06T12:00Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements ""Pee Wee Reese looked into Cincinnati dugout and the grandstands beyond as the slurs and heckling were coming from both Cincinnati ballplayers and fans. Some were shouting out terms like shoeshine boy snowflake and much worse. Reese however did not call out at the taunters or the Cincinnati dugout. But he kept his arm around Robinsons shoulder." Roger Kahn. "They were riding Pee Wee about being a Southerner and playing baseball with black man. He left his position at shortstop and walked over to me. He put his hand on my shoulder and began talking to me. His words werent important. It was" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2019743934189052125) 2026-02-06T12:04Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements "Tom Seaver was named on [---] out of [---] ballots for the Baseball Hall of Fame. Three ballots were blank as a protest against Pete Rose being ineligible. One was sent by a writer recovering from surgery who did not notice Tom Seaver's name on the ballot and one never voted for any player in their first year of eligibility. In [----] Ken Griffey Jr. was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame receiving 99.32% of the vote breaking pitcher Tom Seaver's record of 98.84% a record that had stood for [--] years. Tom Seaver is one of TWO pitchers EVER in the 'Triple [--] Club'. [---] wins/sub [--] ERA/3000" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2019846565452493056) 2026-02-06T18:52Z 29.2K followers, 44.7K engagements "Hall of Famers' Hank Aaron and Carl Yastrzemski both played their final MLB game [----] days after their MLB debut" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2019847356595032289) 2026-02-06T18:55Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements ""Al Kaline was an icon not only to the Tigers organization but to all of baseball. Kaline meant a great deal to me coming up through the Tigers organization. I was smart enough to watch and learn from the way he carried himself both off the field and on it. Al Kaline was as good as they come." Alan Trammell. He was the kind of prospect a scout sees in his dream. Tigers scout Ed Katalinas. Al Kaline wore uniform No. [--] his first two seasons 1953-54 before donning No. [--] and becoming the American League batting Champion with a .340 average at age [--] in [----]. The same day Al Kaline graduated from" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2019848403895586954) 2026-02-06T18:59Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements ""It was real hatred. Fisk hated Munson. Munson hated Fisk. Everyone hated Bill Lee." Don Zimmer on the rivalry between the Yankees and the Red Sox of the 1970's. "If I am remembered by anyone I would want it to be as a guy who cared about the planet and welfare of his fellow man. And who would take you out at second if the game was on the line." Bill Lee" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2019849055262691475) 2026-02-06T19:01Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements "Stan Musial was one of my favourite ballplayers because he treated everybody the same black or white superstar or scrub and he genuinely loved the game. When he and I were part of a group of players who toured Vietnam Stan Musial became the first white man I ever roomed with. For my money Stan was the greatest gentleman in the game." "I Had a Hammer" Hank Aaron Joe Torre Hank Aaron Harmon Killebrew Brooks Robinson Stan Musial. My Tho [----]. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019850456474767603 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019850456474767603" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2019850456474767603) 2026-02-06T19:07Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements "Future Mets owner Fred Wilpon was the captain and star pitcher of the Lafayette High baseball team while Sandy Koufax played first base and pitched occasionally. Sandy Koufax went to high school in Brooklyn and came to University of Cincinnati on a basketball scholarship. At the time freshman weren't permitted to play varsity college basketball. As a 6'1" forward Koufax averaged [---] points per game on the 1953-54 basketball. Koufax joined the baseball in part because the team was travelling to New Orleans on a spring trip and Koufax wanted to go. Sandy Koufax struck out [--] batters including" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2019921077204344854) 2026-02-06T23:48Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements "On Dec [--] [----] the New York Jets played the New England Patriots at Shea Stadium. However it was a halftime incident that the [-----] spectators probably remember most. For the sum of $800 The Electronic Eagles of the Radio Controlled Association of Greater New York put on a [--] minute show of radio controlled airplanes and one flying lawnmower. Most of you are probably thinking; Is it a good idea to fly dozens of radio controlled planes over the heads of [-----] in a windy open aired stadium like Shea Most of you probably came to the conclusion that the answer would be a resounding no. But you're" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2019934593206354306) 2026-02-07T00:41Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements ""Everybody knew what was coming but still couldn't hit him. Walter's right arm was different than yours or mine. It was special like Caruso's lungs or Einstein's brain." "Chief" Myers on Senators pitcher Walter Johnson. "Keep it. I don't want it." Ray Chapman after watching two Walter Johnson fastball strikes and heading back to the dugout being told by the umpire that he had another strike coming. "Babe Ruth once suffered the humiliation of having the great Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators throw three straight fastballs past him. Ruth asked the umpire if he had seen any of the" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2020101211744023024) 2026-02-07T11:43Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements ""Ill never forget the night I went home and told my mother that I was going to quit college and go into baseball. She broke down and cried when I told her. She insisted that I should stay on in school. "Ill be well again soon" she said "and then everything will be all right." Like me she didnt think I could make good in baseball and she was afraid that I would be let out in a few weeks and then Id be out of college as well as out of a job too. It was a tough spot" "You think youre a ballplayer" Ty Cobb said to me one day at the Stadium. "All you can do is hit that ball. If youre a ballplayer" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2020102363789271534) 2026-02-07T11:48Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements ""Vince Scully and I were attending Fordham Prep High School in [----]. At a school assembly Vince was sitting behind me grabbed me by the shoulders and said: Larry someday you will be in the big leagues and the first time you hit a home run I will be the announcer and tell the world about it. Sure enough it happened in [----]. I was with the Cardinals and the first time we played in New York Eddie Stanky put me in left field and I hit a home run (my first) off of Preacher Roe and beat him for the first time in two years. Vin Scully had joined Red Barber on radio broadcasts and he actually told" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2020104773786087428) 2026-02-07T11:58Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements ""I don't regret for one minute the twelve years I've spent in baseball but I could regret one season too many. I've got a lot of years to live after baseball and I would like to live them with the complete use of my body. I tried to do a consistently good job - that was my goal. I loved to play. I loved the game. And I'll miss it. My only regret is leaving baseball. I still don't know how much I am going to miss it but I know I am going to miss a lot of things." Sandy Koufax. After finishing the Cy Young season with 27-9 record and a league-leading [----] ERA 30-year-old Sandy Koufax shocks" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2020105330596728886) 2026-02-07T12:00Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements ""I was a pretty good pitcher you know I threw a no-hitter. I threw pretty hard actually. I had a workout with the Braves. I was like [--] years old and they invited me down there during the afternoon. The catcher was a guy named Bob Keely. The pitching coach was a guy named Johnny Cooney. Im on the sidelines throwing down at County Stadium. And like I said I was a pretty good pitcher and Im down there humping pretty good. I threw upper 80s low 90s maybe. Id been playing sandlot baseball and we won a City Championship a couple years in a row with 'Rohr Jewellers' downtown. We were good. So Im" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2020105878771257831) 2026-02-07T12:02Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements ""When I was a kid my Dad would bring me to the ballpark and we'd have a catch on the field then I'd be hanging in the clubhouse with Pete Sheehy the clubhouse guy. Mickey Mantle would always come in late after the whole team was already on the field. When I asked my Dad why Mickey was always late he shook his head and immediately set me straight. "Mickey's not late" he said. "He just doesn't want anyone to see him putting all those bandages on his legs." Everyone knew Mickey had to wrap the heck out of his knees but he didn't want anyone to see him do it. He didn't want them to think it was" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2020107506874286237) 2026-02-07T12:08Z 29.2K followers, 11.9K engagements "In [----] and at age [--] Spottswood Poles joined the '369th Infantry Harlem Hellfighters attached to the French Army since the US military didn't allow Black men to serve at the time. Poles earned [--] Battle stars and Purple Heart for combat in France as sergeant. Hit from .414 to .487 in the Negro Leagues. The fastest player in his day Poles ran a 100-meter race in less than [--] seconds. Negro Leaguer' Sam Streeter who saw both 'Cool Papa' Bell and Poles play thought Poles was faster. Poles had batting averages of .440 .398 .414 and .487 against all competition. Credited with [----] hits [---] home" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2020108846157447270) 2026-02-07T12:14Z 29.2K followers, [---] engagements ""Lou Boudreau is easily the slowest ballplayer since Ernie Lombardi was thrown out at first base trying to stretch a double into a single". Stanley Frank. "The slowest man to ever play major league baseball well". Bill James. "Next to Ernie molasses is a blur". Anonymous teammate. "Lombardi was so slow he ran like he was carrying a pianoand the tuner". Ernie Lombardi topped .300 on [--] different occasions won a pair of batting titles [----] and [----] becoming first catcher to win multiple batting crowns. Named National League MVP in [----]. Nothing about Lombardi was conventional including his" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2020219968999071998) 2026-02-07T19:35Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements ""I cant believe that Babe Ruth was a better player than Willie Mays. Babe Ruth is to baseball what Arnold Palmer is to golf. He got the game moving. But I cant believe he could run as well as Mays and I cant believe he was any better an outfielder." Sandy Koufax. "I think anybody who saw him will tell you that Willie Mays was the greatest player who ever lived." Monte Irvin. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020221250254291449 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020221250254291449" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2020221250254291449) 2026-02-07T19:40Z 29.3K followers, 11.3K engagements ""I can see the sun OK and that's [--] million miles away." Umpire Bruce Froemming after having his eyesight questioned by Lou Piniella" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2020221449823224124) 2026-02-07T19:41Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements ""Baseball has no penalties at all. A home run is a home run. You cheer. In football on a score you look for flags. If there's one who's it on When can we cheer Football acts can be repealed. Baseball acts stand forever". Thomas Boswell Summers and Berra. [----] World Series. "Robinson was coming in. I didnt move because I had to stay to make call on the pitch first. Thats why I stayed crouched over. I saw it perfectly. Yogi put the ball at the back of the plate Robinson slid across the plate into the glove. Im satisfied I made call right. Umpire Bill Summers. "I talked to Jackie about that call" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2020222687268982919) 2026-02-07T19:46Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements ""All in all it was a terrific day in Commerce as a parade and celebration honored Mickey Mantle and his young wife Merlyn". "The Oklahoma" [----]. I developed an instant crush on Mickey Mantle and by our second or third date I was in love with him and always would be". Merlyn Mantle "Mickey it's only a game." Mickey Mantles 's wife Merlyn trying to console him after losing the [----] World Series. "Mickey had everything going for him. "He had the good looks and innocence we wanted to see in our heroes. He had outstanding strength. He even had that billboard name. Mickey was exceptional and the" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2020223035861537020) 2026-02-07T19:48Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements "@MatthewNichol5 Again Every day" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2020243661221707812) 2026-02-07T21:09Z 29.2K followers, [---] engagements "Thank you David @Jimfrombaseball I graduated from Fordham Prep thirty years after this. My Latin teacher had taught Vin and was the baseball coach. He said Vin was exceptional kind and was good field no hit in CF. Vin left one million dollars to the Prep in his will @Jimfrombaseball I graduated from Fordham Prep thirty years after this. My Latin teacher had taught Vin and was the baseball coach. He said Vin was exceptional kind and was good field no hit in CF. Vin left one million dollars to the Prep in his will" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2020290282328387722) 2026-02-08T00:15Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements ""Boston Red Sox pitcher Hub Leonard would aim bullets at your head left handed to boot. I once dragged a bunt which the first baseman was forced to field. Leonard sprinted for first to take the throw and saw that I was after him. He wouldn't have been safe that day if he'd scrambled into the top bleachers. I ignored the bag-since I was already out-and dove feet first right through the coaching box. He managed to duck but the escape was close enough medicine for him. Leonard never threw another beanball at me. I may have been fierce but never low or underhand. Baseball is a red-blooded sport" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2020464894647120080) 2026-02-08T11:49Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements ""Whatever Lou Gehrig does in the future doesn't count. He has had fourteen great seasons and I mean great. If I could have only ten of them I'd be satisfied. Here's a fellow who has lasted 'til he's thirty-six and only this morning I was wondering and me twenty-four how long I'll last. Say if I could go ten more years 'til I'm thirty-four I'd be glad to call it a career. Lou Gehrig welcomed me with open arms he made the transition very easy. It was his will and desire and character that drove us to all those pennants and you couldn't help but try to emulate the man. He never did say very much" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2020465212038447130) 2026-02-08T11:50Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements ""Babe Ruth was very brave at the plate. You rarely saw him fall away from a pitch. He stayed right in there. No one drove him out." Casey Stengel. "He was like all boys full of mischief. They always said he was bad but he wasnt bad just full of mischief. He didnt like school. Thats why Daddy put him in St. Marys. The only thing he was interested in was baseball. I always figured he would make a good baseball player because he loved the game so much." Mary "Mamie" Ruth Babes sister. She and Babe were the only two of their parents' [--] children to survive infancy. Mary "Mamie" Ruth was proud of" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2020465669301502342) 2026-02-08T11:52Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements "As far as I'm concerned Hank Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years as to what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due. Mickey Mantle on Hank Aaron. "In [----] a little town called Eau Claire and the City of Milwaukee helped to shape my dreams and helped to mold me into the man I am today. I can never forget that here I found acceptance encouragement self-confidence and lifelong friends." Hank Aaron. Henry Aaron led the league in everything except hotel accommodations. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020467388806828243" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2020467388806828243) 2026-02-08T11:58Z 29.2K followers, [----] 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. "I never wanted all this hoopla. All I wanted is to be a good ball player hit twenty-five or thirty homers drive in a hundred runs hit .280 help my club win pennants. I just wanted to be one of the guys an average player having a good season. I don't want to be Babe Ruth. He was a great ballplayer. I'm not trying to replace him. The record is there and damn right I want to break it but that isn't" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2020468390528217453) 2026-02-08T12:02Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements ""Ray Nitschke had great study habits and analyzed as much film as Bart Starr. Nitschke used to drive Vince Lombardi crazy during practice because he was able to call out all the offensive plays before the snap. He would run around screaming Watch out for the pass; watch out for the draw Vince would scream at him to shut up. Ray would just grin and after a play or two Lombardi would start screaming again. The most amazing thing about Nitschke is that he played his entire career on one leg. Ray Nitschkes left leg had been injured so much in High School and in College that the muscles had" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2020469616451961072) 2026-02-08T12:07Z 29.2K followers, [---] engagements ""There is a young man on the New York Yankees roster that is being overlooked and will make New York sit up and take notice next summer. That young man is George Halas." "The Chicago Tribune". "It is unusual for a college player to jump into the big leagues and become a regular the first season but this is just the thing that Halas threatens to do. He is swift afoot and is a heady and proficient base runner. He covers a lot of ground in the outfield and best of all he is a world of enthusiasm for the game. New York Times. George Halas played baseball for the New York Yankees. Halas played 12" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2020572261317742905) 2026-02-08T18:55Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements ""The presentation. Walking to home plate calmly and slowly and looking at the ball. Back then all the spikes would be cleaned and polished for the following day. So all the spikes had shoe polish on them. When my Dad walked out there looking at the ball gave it to the umpire and showed him the spot on the ball there was no reason for the umpire to doubt him. My Dad wasnt loud brash or rude; he communicated calmly and clearly and never lost his cool. Otherwise he would have run to home plate screaming and yelling with the shoe polish instead of walking casually to home plate and showing it to" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2020573998162329905) 2026-02-08T19:02Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements ""Babe Ruth was not a drunk by no chance. Babe drank and I guess at times he was drunk but he was never never was he did he miss a game because of that or have a bad day because of it. Never. Never. Never. Any of these lame-brains that write and talk on the air about fat drunk Babe Ruth thats silly and ridiculous". Roommate "Schoolboy" Waite Hoyt "Babe Ruth besieged by a crowd of orphans at Hebrew Orphan Asylum each clamouring for an autographed ball from their hero. The Babe capitulated and gave a signed horse hide to each of the tots." New York 1927." [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2020825299231908144) 2026-02-09T11:41Z 29.2K followers, [---] engagements ""I came right off the sandlots and the next thing I new I was rubbing elbows with stars like Goose Goslin and Bobo Newsom. Being a rookie you would not believe what a damn cold shoulder I got from most of the veterans on the team. If you were a rookie you stayed in your rookie area and you did not fraternize with the older players." Buddy Lewis in 'Baseball Digest'. Buddy Lewis broke into the big leagues at age [--] was a regular by age [--] an All Star by age [--]. As long as Ive been in baseball and Ive never seen an infielder who looked so good in his first year as a big leaguer. [--] year old" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2020826091330429204) 2026-02-09T11:44Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements ""When Mickey Mantle faced the cameras for last time months before his death he was a husk of a man shrunken by cancer. The stiff brim of his [----] All-Star Game cap dwarfed his brow. He looked straight into cameras and told us all 'Don't be like me". "The Last Boy" Jane Leavy Mantle circles the bases while Koufax burns" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2020830302269055394) 2026-02-09T12:01Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements ""Johnny Bench befriended me my first year in the big leagues. He took me under his wing during my first All-Star Game and we've been friends ever since. He's one guy I've tried to emulate and I'll always compare myself to Johnny Bench". Gary Carter. "I'm gonna miss that smile I'm gonna miss every part of Gary Carter because of the way he was. For those who knew him no words are necessary. For those who didn't no words are adequate." Johnny Bench. Bench said that Gary Carter had always wanted to manage in the major leagues. Nobody was that smart to hire him. "Johnny Bench was the No. [--] catcher" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2020830817711255614) 2026-02-09T12:03Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements ""Baseball is a ballet without music. A drama without words." Ernie Harwell. "Baseball and Ballerina" Salvador Dali [----]. Ink and watercolor on paper Collection of The Dal Museum St. Petersburg Florida" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2020932568754028983) 2026-02-09T18:47Z 29.2K followers, [---] engagements ""The [----] Cardinals never won a game they could afford to lose; and never lost a game that they had to win." Bob Broeg. "I wish Yankee fans wouldn't boo the guy. It just makes him mad." Mickey Mantle regarding Bob Gibson. "I remember hearing how Mickey Mantle had lost a step and was a little past his prime. But when he got me 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 [--] [----] World Series. In his final" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2020934224035872778) 2026-02-09T18:54Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements "@BobPagesports @PolarGinger My Uncle and I always "played catch" Actually he always called it "play catch and fetch" because he said " You owned a wing that's as dead as a new brides biscuit."" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2021003204473802774) 2026-02-09T23:28Z 29.2K followers, [--] engagements ""I know one thing Without Darrell Porter we sure wouldnt have won our second and third straight championships in the West Division." Mgr. Whitey Herzog [----]. Signed out of high school as the #4 overall pick of the Brewers in the [----] amateur draft Darrell Porter developed into one of the grittiest catchers in baseball After the [----] season the Chicago Cubs offered the Brewers $1 million in cash for Darrell Porter. Owner Bud Selig declined. There isnt enough money around to get Darrell Porter." Porter matchedMickey Cochraneas the second catcher to amass over [---] runs RBI and walks in a single" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2021005148047409513) 2026-02-09T23:35Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements "Sandy Koufax at his peak was the greatest pitcher in history Gibson at his peak was the greatest competitor on the mound in history @Jimfrombaseball Question. I never saw Koufax and barely remember Gibson. May I ask who you thought was better They both seem to be top ten all time pitchers. @Jimfrombaseball Question. I never saw Koufax and barely remember Gibson. May I ask who you thought was better They both seem to be top ten all time pitchers" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2021012623958159457) 2026-02-10T00:05Z 29.3K followers, 11K engagements ""I saw a wounded baseball fan tottering down the street. Encased in bandages and tape and bruised from head to feet. And as I called the ambulance I heard the poor guy say: I bought a seat in Wrigley Field but it was Ladies Day. A Chicago Newspaper [----]. "LADIES When your husband comes home in the evening in laughing jovial mood and tells that he was out at 'Cubs Park' and saw those same Cubs whale this or that team did you ever attempt to picture in your own mind just what scenes he has witnessed Well dont try. Come out on Friday afternoon as the guest of the Cubs and see with your own eyes" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2021186150757544076) 2026-02-10T11:35Z 29.2K followers, [---] engagements ""I unconsciously decided that even if it wasn't an ideal world it should be so and painted only the ideal aspects of it. Pictures in which there are no drunken slatterns or self-centered mothers. Only foxy grandpas who played baseball with kids and boys who fished from logs and got up circuses in the back yard." Norman Rockwell. Before a doubleheader at Braves Field between the Boston Braves and the Chicago Cubs on May [--] [----] Norman Rockwell approached both teams with the intention of creating a portrait of a visiting team's dejection in contrast elation of hometown fans. A number of Cubs" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2021186848140186025) 2026-02-10T11:37Z 29.3K followers, [---] engagements ""Anytime you need any help you got it. I'm a gambling fool. Otherwise I wouldn't be here." Burt Reynolds to former Coach Bobby Bowden when the Seminoles played Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl. In the early days of Coach Bobby Bowden's tenure at Florida State it was still allowed to bring boosters on a recruiting trip so Bowden pitched Burt Reynolds on a plan. There was a kid from Ohio that Bowden wanted to sign the son in a single-parent home. So the pair flew up for a visit with Bobby Bowden selling the kid on Florida State while Burt Reynolds wooed the mom. "The kid ended up going to Notre Dame" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2021194809982022060) 2026-02-10T12:09Z 29.3K followers, 18.2K engagements ""Not only was I not the best catcher in the major leagues; I wasn't even the best catcher on my street." Joe Garagiola. In [----] when Yogi Berra finished third in MVP voting behind teammate Phil Rizzuto and Bostons Billy Goodman Yogi Berra may have had his best year. Despite all that hard work behind the plate only missing three games all season Yogi batted .322 with [--] home runs and [---] RBIs while striking out only TWELVE times in [---] plate appearances. Few hitters could see the ball like Yogi could. Notorious as a bad ball hitter he seemed able to make contact with pitches at will whether in" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2021195492370026553) 2026-02-10T12:12Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements "Smoky Burgess was fat. Not baseball-fat like Micky Lolich or Early Wynn but at-fat like the mailman or your Uncle Dwight. In fact I would venture to say that Smoky Burgess was probably the fattest man ever to play professional baseball. Dressed in the white home uniform of the Pittsburgh Pirates Smokey Burgess looks a little like a walking laundry bag. "Sports Illustrated" [----]. "Smoky Burgess did not possess the physique of a Greek god nor even that of the average major leaguer. Standing in at a pudgy [--] Burgess was saddled with such unflattering descriptions as 'a walking laundry bag' and" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2021295733794828381) 2026-02-10T18:50Z 29.3K followers, 13.8K engagements ""The very word jazz may owe its origins to baseball for the first documented use of word jazz meaning a kind of pep occurred in [----] L.A. Times article on baseball. Dr. John Edward Hasse Smithsonian There are only three things that America will be remembered for [----] years from now when they study this civilization: The Constitution Jazz music Baseball. These are the [--] most beautiful things this cultures ever created. Gerald Early Dizzy Gillespie with Cab Calloways Baseball team. Cab Calloway's band toured relentlessly and Calloway was one of the first bandleaders to have both baseball and" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2021297788701507750) 2026-02-10T18:58Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements "Mr. Page the scariest Fastest ever in history. I never want to face him again. Ted Williams. Steve Dalkowski was the hardest thrower I ever saw. Catcher Cal Ripken Sr. [----]. His fastball was like nothing Id ever seen before. It really rose. If you told him to aim the ball at home plate that ball would cross the plate at the batters shoulders That was because of the tremendous backspin he could put on the ball". Pat Gillick Steve Dalkowski threw harder than anybody I ever saw he even threw his slider [--] miles per hour. One day in the outfield I said You can throw a ball through that fence cant" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2021388631206711518) 2026-02-11T00:59Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements ""Walter Johnson was great big sort of pitcher with hands that came clear down to his knees. Everybody in league knew he'd never come inside to a batter. Walter was a gentleman first last and always." "Smoky" Joe Wood. Walter Johnson caught the Washington Senators attention by going [--] innings straight without allowing a run for Weiser Idaho in the Southern Idaho League. "This boy throws so fast you can't see 'em and he knows where he is throwing because if he didn't there would be dead bodies all over Idaho". A MLB scout on Walter Johnson before he joined the Washington Senators. "Labor Day" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2021552101130654085) 2026-02-11T11:49Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements "In late November [----] with another baseball season in the books and the pennant won maverick Milwaukee Brewers owner Bill Veeck left his office at Borchert Field and enlisted in the US Marine Corps. His right leg was crushed in the recoil of an anti-aircraft gun during the Bougainville campaign and of his twenty-two months in the service he spent eighteen in military hospitals. "What Bill Veeck did better than any baseball executive in the game's history of the game was to get fans in the seats. No one did more to draw people to games than Veeck when he was the owner of the Cleveland Indians" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2021554240800411921) 2026-02-11T11:57Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements ""A word of advice to you men. Many times in your Marine Corps career you are going to feel like resigning. But dont forget: One son of a bitch or four or five cannot ruin the Corps. I was told by "Chesty" Puller years ago there is only a hairlines difference between a Navy Cross and a general court-martial. The definition of flying is: Hours and hours of dull monotony sprinkled with a few moments of stark horror." Gregory "Pappy" Boyington. During their first combat tour while on the island of Vella Lavella the Black Sheeps Intelligence Officer Frank Walton wrote to the Commissioner of" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2021556831835881615) 2026-02-11T12:08Z 29.3K followers, 27.9K engagements ""The highlight of my career In [----] with St. Louis I walked with the bases loaded to drive in the winning run in an inter squad game in spring training. I think my top salary was maybe in [----]. I made $17000 and [--] of that came from selling other players' equipment. Baseball hasn't forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven't lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times." Bob Uecker. In [----] the Brewers dedicated a second Bob Uecker statue in the last row of the upper deck a wink and a nod to the story line in many of those Miller" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2021557168437125570) 2026-02-11T12:09Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements "Charles J. "Chuck" Chase was drafted in the first round of the Major League Amateur Draft 18th overall by the Minnesota Twins in [----]. Chase was immediately assigned to their rookie team in Sarasota Florida in the newly renamed Gulf Coast League. After the [----] season he was drafted by the US Army. On June [--] [----] Staff Sergeant C. J. Chase was killed by friendly fire during a firefight with North Vietnamese Army troops. He was [--] years old. In January of [----] posthumous medals and citations were given to Chucks family on his behalf. For service to his country Staff Sergeant Charles J. Chase" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2021557805082083819) 2026-02-11T12:11Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements "Each year I do not play I get better. The first year on the banquet trail I was a former ballplayer. The second year I was great. The third year one of baseballs stars and just last year I was introduced as one of baseballs immortals. The older I get the more I realize that the worst break I had was playing. Joe Garagiola. "Joe Garagiola fought against chewing tobacco wrote two more books helped found an organization to assist former players in need and worked tirelessly to try to help Native American kids. By any measure that's a full life." Bryant Gumbel paying tribute to Joe Garagiola. "I" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2021558308134400118) 2026-02-11T12:13Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements "RT @ChattLookouts: Before the Hall of Fame there were the Chattanooga Choo-Choos.🚂 From [------] the Choo-Choos were a cornerstone of Ne" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2021643894367388135) 2026-02-11T17:53Z 29.3K followers, [--] engagements "RT @sigg20: Athletes We Remember From the Past #Cardinals #MLB #nostalgia" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2021663262971240515) 2026-02-11T19:10Z 29.2K followers, [--] engagements "RT @sigg20: Old DaysLegends: Willie McCovey holds on Roberto Clemente during the [----] Pirates-Giants NLCS at Candlestick Park.#HOF #MLB #" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2021663302414401975) 2026-02-11T19:11Z 29.2K followers, [--] engagements "RT @sigg20: Legendary Athletes From the Past #Cardinals #MLB #nostalgia" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2021663327949386141) 2026-02-11T19:11Z 29.2K followers, [--] engagements ""I think baseball is a great support to people who have emotional voids gaps emotional difficulties. That is to say: all of us. Those parts of us that dont function well. Those parts of us that are sad or depressednot every day. They can really use baseball. It isn't just the child in a wheelchair or the shut-in senior citizen listening to the radio that needs the game. Theres part of us part of everybody whos a baseball fan who needs the game at that level." Thomas Boswell. Enos Slaughter and Joe Collins hop out of a cab during Spring Training at 'Al Lang Field' in St. Petersburg in full" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2021663782720643196) 2026-02-11T19:13Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements ""Shed no tears for Buck. I couldn't attend Sarasota High School. That hurt. I couldn't attend the University of Florida. That hurt. But not going into the Hall of Fame that ain't going to hurt me that much no. Before I wouldn't even have a chance. But this time I had that chance. Just keep loving old Buck." 94-year-old Buck ONeil addressing a group that had assembled for what was scheduled to be a celebration of O'Neil's election into baseball's Hall of Fame in February [----]. Buck ONeil fell one vote short of HOF election. "Gods been good to me. They didnt think Buck was good enough to be in" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2021664187890753636) 2026-02-11T19:14Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements "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. "Bye Bye Balboni". After "Bye Bye" hit [--] home runs for the [----] World Champion Kansas City Royals no team with a player who hit more than Balbonis [--] home runs won the World Series for the next sixteen years this was also known as the Curse of the Balboni" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2021664488961855756) 2026-02-11T19:15Z 29.3K followers, 14.6K engagements ""All though I didn't meet him. His legend and his saga and his story is just that. Jackie Robinson we all have to tip our hat to him. Because he made the game available to guys like me. People I look up to Again Hank Aaron man you challenged the status quo and the records of the game. Monumental feats in an era where people didn't like that. These days baseball is different. You come to Spring Training you get your legs ready you arms loose your agents ready your lawyers lined up. I never had to cheat I get them with what I got." Dave Winfield. "If I were sitting down with George Steinbrenner" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2021664803874378072) 2026-02-11T19:17Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements ""Nobody was more loyal generous courageous more respected than Ted Williams. He sacrificed his life and career for his country. But he became what he always wanted to be the greatest hitter ever." Yogi Berra on Ted Williams. "For my money Ted Williams is the greatest hitter of all-time. I'd take him over Babe Ruth I'd take him over Ty Cobb. I'd take him over Cobb because of the combination of power and average. I'd take him over Ruth because with Ruth you can only speculate about what he would have done in the modern era. Ted Williams hit .388 at the age of [--] in [----]. Ted was what few of us" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2021665126349230347) 2026-02-11T19:18Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements ""The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself. Training counts. You cant win any game unless you are ready to win" Connie Mack. With the Three Stooges Anaheim Spring Training [----]. "Calling Dr. Howard Dr. Fine Dr Howard"" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2021665624054018141) 2026-02-11T19:20Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements "Very well done Thank you @Jimfrombaseball @sigg20 Good guy. Always showed up for the class reunions on the Hill in St Louis. https://t.co/AFiNQM2VHb @Jimfrombaseball @sigg20 Good guy. Always showed up for the class reunions on the Hill in St Louis. https://t.co/AFiNQM2VHb" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2021732653293338994) 2026-02-11T23:46Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements "Good work @acodemonkey @Jimfrombaseball @RoyalTXGirl @USMC Top USMC ace in PTO but not top US ace in PTO Major Richard Bong USAAF P-38 jockey of 9FS 49FG [--] kills to this day the top scoring US ace of all time all theaters https://t.co/47ByokRHaI @acodemonkey @Jimfrombaseball @RoyalTXGirl @USMC Top USMC ace in PTO but not top US ace in PTO Major Richard Bong USAAF P-38 jockey of 9FS 49FG [--] kills to this day the top scoring US ace of all time all theaters https://t.co/47ByokRHaI" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2021733641835966798) 2026-02-11T23:50Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements "RT @Steigerworld: The Gunner called him Shake Rattle & Roll" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021737528865222858) 2026-02-12T00:06Z 29.2K followers, [--] engagements "RT @JamesMDeMarco: @Jimfrombaseball Jim I was at Yankee spring training [--] saw Joe Altobelli and yelled out Hey Joe Rochester NY His" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2021738865820614766) 2026-02-12T00:11Z 29.3K followers, [--] engagements "Awesome Runs in the family I think Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi Trucks @Jimfrombaseball Virgil Trucks put more effort into an autograph than anyone else. He used [--] different pens and [--] different stamps to sign a single autograph https://t.co/wlycWaj5lG @Jimfrombaseball Virgil Trucks put more effort into an autograph than anyone else. He used [--] different pens and [--] different stamps to sign a single autograph https://t.co/wlycWaj5lG" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2021742457872846851) 2026-02-12T00:25Z 29.3K followers, [----] 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. "Radio Announcing I Have Did" Title of a lecture Dizzy Dean gave at Southern Methodist University sometime after the St. Louis Board of" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2021912743750537314) 2026-02-12T11:42Z 29.3K followers, [---] engagements "Im going back in. We are in trouble and there is only one thing left to do return to service. I have not been called back I am going back of my own accord. Hank Greenberg Was the first major league baseball drafted and called-up for WWII service. Deployed to China in [----] Hank Greenberg was returned back stateside in [----] and discharged in [----]. In total Hank Greenberg's military career lasted about [--] months at the height of his baseball career. "The first day that Hank Greenberg was in the army he and the other recruits were lined up and the Sergeant immediately began spouting some" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2021916733087301989) 2026-02-12T11:58Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements ""Ted Williams No he doesn't come in. He's too damn cheap. He'd go all over town that sonofabitch and he'd pay by cheque hoping they wouldn't cash the check and they'd put it on the wall." Restaurateurs in Islamorada and the Florida Keys. Legend has it that Sam Snead and Ted Williams once argued over which sport was harder. Ted Williams said it was baseball because you have to hit a moving target but Sam Snead supposedly won the debate: Ted you dont have to go up in the stands and play your foul balls. I do. "Watch Williams when he bats. Hes up there to knock that ball as hard as he can and he" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2021917722888609916) 2026-02-12T12:02Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements ""Let me tell you about Roger Maris. I gave him one point for speed. I do this because he can run fast. I give him another point because he can slide fast. Then I give him a point because he can bunt. I also give him a point because he can field very good around the fences even on top of the fences. Next I gave him a point because he can throw. A right fielder has to be a thrower or he's not a right fielder. So I add up my points and I've got five for him before I even come to his hitting. I would say this is a good man." Casey Stengel. In my HOF" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2021918505705099587) 2026-02-12T12:05Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements ""When I got out into the field I noticed that the wind was blowing in big-time. I told my friend Stan Musial that no one would hit a home run into the left field stands that afternoon because the wind was just howling in. Ill hit one out there he said without hesitation. If you do it Stan I will kiss your rear end when you cross home I said because I knew it was impossible. Well he hit a shot in the sixth inning of that game we called them blue darters back then and it carried into the lower deck in left field. When Musial crossed the plate he smiled and yelled Do you want to kiss it now or" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2021919158884090017) 2026-02-12T12:07Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements ""If you ask me he'll be out of the league by June. I don't think he can hit .240." Jimmy Dykes Mgr. of the Baltimore Orioles during spring training [----] about a young highly touted Chicago Cubs infielder named Ernie Banks. "Ernie Banks wasnt a griper. Never complained about a strike or an out or a call. Some guys would turn their heads after a pitch and look at you like you were nuts. Not Ernie. It was always Isnt this a great day to be alive and playing baseball Umpire Doug Harvey on Ernie Banks In his 19-year career with the Cubs Ernie Banks was never ejected from a game. I learned how to" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2018290884001865972) 2026-02-02T11:50Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements "The first EVER TV commercial was aired on July [--] [----] on station WNBT before a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and Philadelphia Phillies. "America Runs on Bulova Time." It was for "Bulava". It cost about $9 in airtime charges to run the commercial. The first time the wordf*** was ever heard on television was during the broadcasts of Brooklyn Dodgers games on CBS [----]. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018292407251460526 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018292407251460526" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2018292407251460526) 2026-02-02T11:56Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements "During the [----] MLB playoffs between the Giants and the Pirates a television reporter asked Gaylord Perry's five-year-old daughter Allison if her father threw the greaseball. "It's a hard slider" Alison responded" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2019378122043605118) 2026-02-05T11:50Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements ""The Robinson experience developed as epic and now not only a National team the Dodgers were a National issue. Everywhere in New England drawing rooms on porches in the South in California which had no major league teams and in New York City which had three men and women talked about the Jackie Robinson Dodgers and as they talked the confronted themselves and American racism. One did not go to Ebbets field for sociology. Exciting baseball was the attraction." Roger Kahn. "Some day I'm going to have to stand before God and if He asks me why I didn't let that Jackie Robinson fellow play ball I" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2020824380494782687) 2026-02-09T11:37Z 29.3K followers, [---] engagements "According to Buck O'Neill and Monte Irvin players in the Negro Leagues were given the equivalent of a dollar a day. When Babe Ruth would barnstorm with them he'd bring in $1500 a game to be distributed to the teams. Ruth was a longtime advocate of integrating baseball" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1805639289381785707) 2024-06-25T16:28Z 29.3K followers, 93.2K engagements "In [----] Waite Hoyt famously disappeared from broadcasting Cincinnati Reds games for a few days while on a terrible drunken bender. Hoyt was reported missing by his wife and it was later revealed that he had gone on a several-day drinking binge and had checked himself into a New York hospital for alcoholism. His wife at the time cited Hoyts disappearance to a "case of amnesia". This prompted Hoyts old friend and teammate Babe Ruth to send him a telegram: "Read about your case of amnesia. Must be a new brand." A longtime member of Alcoholics Anonymous during a [----] "Old-Timers' Day Game" Waite" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2016841884933427344) 2026-01-29T11:52Z 29.3K followers, 16.7K engagements ""One quick story involving me. One year I actually wore a Dodger uniform and sat quietly in the Dodger dugout. They were playing the Chicago Cubs and Don Zimmer was the Cubs manager. I had asked for permission to do it and didnt think anyone except some of the Dodgers players knew I was even in the dugout because I crept in right after the anthem. I sat there with my cap pulled down over my brow arms folded at my chest and I wasnt going to make a move. At the end of half an inning the late John Vuckovich who was the first base coach for the Cubs ran by the Dodgers dugout and hollered Vinny" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2017214119284244772) 2026-01-30T12:31Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements "Story by Whitey Ford. "We were out on the field at Yankee Stadium for about an hour-long ceremony where they were giving a summary of the players. There were a lot of players and it went on for a very long long time. Anyway on the scoreboard there was a list of guys who had passed away over the last year. I was standing next to Yogi Berra. Yogi looked up at it and then turned to me and said: Boy. I hope I never see my name up there. Another guy standing next to me asked Did I just hear him say that I said Yep.'" https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018294551245394242" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2018294551245394242) 2026-02-02T12:04Z 29.3K followers, 12.3K engagements ""83-year-old Lawrence Peter Yogi Berra was introduced to a thunderous ovation as he walked slowly to his familiar spot behind home plate." Yogi Berra stands in his classic Yankees uniform in front of a packed house at the final game held at old Yankee Stadium" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2018656900724953459) 2026-02-03T12:04Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements ""Mel Farr your Superstar Dealer come in for a Farr better deal." Mel Farr Superstar "Mel Farr Ford" Oak Park Michigan. Mel Farr completed his degree at the University of Detroit while still in the National Football League. He worked during the off-season for the Ford Motor Company in its management program. In [----] "Mel Farr Ford" opened at [----] Greenfield Road in Oak Park Michigan. Targeting the inner-city population with its high credit risk but its need for automobiles and ready financing Farr employed a variety of creative marketing and management approaches. Purchasing additional" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2019015890969285008) 2026-02-04T11:51Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements ""There is actually a good argument Tom Seaver should be regarded as the greatest pitcher of all time. Tom Seaver pitched for eight losing teams several of them really terrible four other teams which had losing records except when Tom Seaver was on the mound". Bill James. "You put a bunch of guys together of varying abilities and you know who the great ones are. When you played behind Tom Seaver you were playing behind greatness. And you saw it almost every time. Ron Swoboda. "But Tom Seaver does everything well. He's the kind of man you'd want your kids to grow up to be like. Tom's a studious" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2019136439477588147) 2026-02-04T19:50Z 29.3K followers, 28.9K 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 [----] 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/2019139189363609695) 2026-02-04T20:01Z 29.3K followers, 17K engagements "Lou Gehrig's Farewell Speech Yankee Stadium July [--] [----]. "Fans for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. I have been in ballparks for seventeen years and I have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans. Look at these grand men. Which of you wouldn't consider it the highlight of his career just to associate with them for even one day Sure I'm lucky. Who wouldn't have considered it an honor to have known Jacob Ruppert Also the builder of baseball's greatest empire Ed" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2019374913199501407) 2026-02-05T11:37Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements ""Ray Nitschke had great study habits and analyzed as much film as Bart Starr. Nitschke used to drive Vince Lombardi crazy during practice because he was able to call out all the offensive plays before the snap. He would run around screaming Watch out for the pass; watch out for the draw Vince would scream at him to shut up. Ray would just grin and after a play or two Lombardi would start screaming again. The most amazing thing about Nitschke is that he played his entire career on one leg. Ray Nitschkes left leg had been injured so much in High School and in College that the muscles had" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2020480962711245260) 2026-02-08T12:52Z 29.3K followers, 16.7K engagements ""Thurman Munson and I came to be to be very close friends during my first season with the Yankees in [----]. I had just come over from the Pittsburgh Pirates in [----] and was having a bit of a rough time adjusting to the added pressure of playing in the Yankee pinstripes. Thurman helped me through those trying times. When I was trying too hard he would always settle me down by providing humor on the field. Thurman had an uncanny ability unlike any teammates that I have played with to share a laugh or humorous moment on the field during pressure moments. Even in World Series play he always had a" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2020572534899453992) 2026-02-08T18:56Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements ""We were kidding around at the All-Star Game putting on a show. Joe Morgan hit a couple into the seats Steve Garvey hit a couple into the bullpen. Then Greg Luzinski stepped up and made it look like he was driving golf balls. Everything he hit went out of sight. Just awesome." Johnny Bench. "Luzinski was a doorway and a half. They could hold the Winter Olympics on his shoulders balance Rhode Island on his knees and plug up leaky dams with his feet." Rich Wescott. "Theyre going to have to start a separate record book: Most home run roof. Ron Kittle. During the [----] season as a designated" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2020830012039967151) 2026-02-09T11:59Z 29.3K followers, 30.1K engagements ""The [----] 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 [----] All-Star Game on TV with her grandfather. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020831235614863592" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2020831235614863592) 2026-02-09T12:04Z 29.3K followers, 19.6K engagements ""Joe DiMaggio had good reason for being suspicious of the press. In his first two seasons as a Yankee he had been nothing less than brilliant leading New York back to the pennant after a hiatus of three years. In his second season he hit .346 and [--] home runs and knocked in [---] runs. He had been paid only $8000 for his first year and for his second $15000 plus of course his World Series checks which the Yankee's management viewed as part of his salary. For his third year he decided to ask for $40000. The Yankees offered him $25000. Ed Barrow the general manager told him that $40000 was more" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2021191457944560125) 2026-02-10T11:56Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements ""I was blocked for playing with the Dodgers by Gil Hodges for seven yearstwo in single-A two in double-A and three in triple-A. They had so many players that I never got a chance. They kept us around for a long time going up and down up and down but they never gave me much of a shot. They never changed that infield for seven years. Jim Gentile The Orioles paid $50000 and two players for Jim Gentile but he was only sent to Baltimore on a trial basis for [--] days. If they didnt like me after thirty days they could send me back and get back half their money." Mickey Mantle and Jim Gentile. Mantle" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2021296241456635933) 2026-02-10T18:52Z 29.3K followers, 12K engagements ""There were only four high schools in the state of Florida which a black kid could attend. So it was mostly just elementary education this was by design because this was all they though a black kid needed. So after I finished eighth grade I had to work. I worked in that celery farm for three seasons. One day in the third year toward the end of the harvest the foreman blew the whistle for lunch. I had been doing nothing but carrying boxes for weeks and it was hotter than usual and so humid it felt like we were working in a steam bath. There was this big stack of boxes on the ground. On one" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2021913835074949407) 2026-02-12T11:46Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements ""On one road trip into Cincinnati's Crosley Field Jackie Robinson received a particularly scary death threat. There was a pall over the visitor's locker room as the Dodgers prepared for the game. Undeterred by the silence the happy-go-lucky Gene Hermanski spoke up with a solution for the man he admired so much. "Gene suddenly said 'I've got it' Everyone looked and they said 'What' Gene said 'We'll all wear number [--] and they'll never know which one is Jackie Robinson'" It was Gene Hermanski who suggested that all of his Brooklyn Dodgers teammates wear the number #42 jersey to confuse" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2022025358930059291) 2026-02-12T19:09Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements ""Hitting in its simplest form is seeing the ball adjusting to the location and speed and hitting the ball. That sounds simple but unless you have set your body in a proper position to maximize its strengths you will fail time after time. As with any motor skills movement the act of hitting a baseball needs to be consciously learned then subconsciously performed. This assures spontaneous reaction." Charley Lau "Lau's Laws on Hitting: The Art of Hitting .400 for the Next Generation." @Jimfrombaseball My favorite card of Mr. Lau. Charley Finley [----] uniforms of the KC Athletics." [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2022095020266860943) 2026-02-12T23:46Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements ""Babe Ruth went to his position in the outfield and found an alligator already there. 'I aint going out there anymore' Ruth reported to Huggins when he returned to the bench. "Theres alligators out there." 'The St. Petersburg Evening Independent' [----]. @BSmile In Florida spring training were there really alligators in the outfield @SteveSm41425283 @BrigadierBurma @Jimfrombaseball @BSmile In Florida spring training were there really alligators in the outfield @SteveSm41425283 @BrigadierBurma @Jimfrombaseball" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2022108660227555585) 2026-02-13T00:40Z 29.3K followers, [----] 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. [--] 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/1913205096541802536) 2025-04-18T12:16Z 29.3K followers, 92K engagements "Ted Williams one of the greatest natural hitters of all time was retired and giving some tips to the rookies at the Red Sox spring training camp. One of them asked how to tell apart a curveball from a slider when they were coming in. Williams replied "Oh That's easy. If it's a curveball the red spot you see on the ball will be rotating clockwise - if it's a changeup counterclockwise." They all nodded and thanked him for the tip. One of the rookies turned to the others and said whispered "Now who the f*** can even see a red spot on a ball coming at you at [--] mph" Then Ted Williams went on to" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1953416085270642777) 2025-08-07T11:21Z 29.3K followers, 1.9M engagements ""For the benefit of you younger fellows we have a lot of rules on this club. Midnight curfew stay out of the bar at the hotel where we're staying wear a shirt and sweater to breakfast and a coat and tie to dinner. Think you can remember all that" Baltimore Orioles Mgr. Hank Bauer [----]. Hank Bauer had an informal set of rules to play baseball. He believed in no cute stuff did not like tricks of any sort and wanted his players to just play straightforward baseball. Here are some additional items he said about various positions: Pitchers: "When I come out to that mound don't give me a lot of" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2016843261046821004) 2026-01-29T11:57Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements ""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 those contests were played in Philadelphia while the other two were contested in Buffalo. Babe Ruth then sailed to Cuba where he joined John McGraws Giants to play nine more contests versus a combination of Latino and Negro ballplayers. Again the message was clear: "If the sports most transcendent figure played without reservation against Black ballplayers why shouldnt everyone else"" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2020103564866003013) 2026-02-07T11:53Z 29.3K followers, 34.9K engagements ""George Washington was apparently seen throwing silver dollars across the Rappahannock River which in [----] was said to measure [---] feet in width and even wider in Washingtons day. The founding fathers reputed feat was likely not possible but Walter Johnson was designated to pitch a silver dollar from one riverbank to the other to see if it could be done at all. A local newspaper called that bet and put up $50 of its own. A reward was issued for the return of the coin should Johnson connect with the other side. Lou Gehrig tossed a coin across New Yorks Harlem River to prove it could be done." [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2020464275500699954) 2026-02-08T11:46Z 29.3K followers, 185.9K engagements "Ted Lyndsay and Doug Harvey enrolled every player in the league save for Torontos Ted Kennedy to their union. The NHLs front offices had no idea the movement had taken place until the announcement. Both paid with their careers Detroit goaltender Terry Sawchuk follows his captain Ted Lindsay for a meet and greet with the fans Legend NO ONE I respected more than Ted Lindsay What a leader A great player AND feared fighter at only 5-8. I covered Ted in Detroit. On a bookshelf in front of me is a whiskey bottle "Bottled Expressly for BOB PAGE" He had 'em made & sent to key media guys. @KeithGave" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2020615710146191566) 2026-02-08T21:48Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements ""I always favour a heavy bat [--] oz. because when you connect with the ball with every ounce of strength in your frame the weight of the bat is going to help the ball to travel. Thats my theory anyway and it seems to work. Ken Williams "It's hard to understand why Ken Williams isn't enshrined in Cooperstown. Williams played with the Reds St. Louis Browns and Boston Red Sox from [----] to [----]. One of baseball's finest hitters Ken Williams 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" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2021914631476797725) 2026-02-12T11:49Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements ""Johnny Bench had tremendous durability never got uptight and had a great sense of humor. At an All-Star game I was on the mound and Frank Howard came to bat all six foot seven inches and [---] lbs. of him. Frank was a terrifying sight at the plate hitting wicked line drives down the third base line. As I stood on the mound to face him I noticed my third baseman Tony Perez had cautiously backed up into short left field. So had the shortstop. I thought to myself 'What am I supposed to do standing just [--] feet away I can't move back into a safe area' I knew I'd have to try and throw him fastballs" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2021919826072031344) 2026-02-12T12:10Z 29.3K followers, 35.9K engagements ""I was pitching against Roberto Clemente and Wes Westrum came out and said He cant hit the fastball inside off the plate. I threw a fastball about a foot inside and he hit it. It was still going up as it went over the center field fence. Darrell Sutherland. "People say 'Clemente didnt hit [---] HR and he didnt do this or that.' Again if you hear players who played against him you realize kind of respect they have for him. Willie Mays always said that for him Clemente was the greatest all-around player he played against." Steve DiMeglio. "Even after his death the spirit of Roberto Clemente" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2022276721102234077) 2026-02-13T11:48Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements "The greatest thing I ever saw was Roger Maris breaking Babe Ruth's record. Mickey Mantle" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2022281849490268323) 2026-02-13T12:08Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements "Mr. Pettibon' art and craft are without peer or equal We're blessed to have this giant occasionally participate here with us "Pettibon's approach is also reminiscent of the directness of children's art." The New Yorker. "Raymond Pettibon has cited William Blake Edward Hopper Francisco Goya as influences. Although most closely associated with drawings in India ink on paper also an accomplished collagist a facility which is echoed in his wide-ranging erudition: blending text and figuration." Art by Raymond Pettibon. @charliejames a few friends of ours in that show @Zaksabbath degenerate art" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2022492010771329502) 2026-02-14T02:04Z 29.3K followers, [----] 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 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1940381880043376788 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1940381880043376788" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1940381880043376788) 2025-07-02T12:07Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements ""DiMaggio had size power and speed. McCarthy his longtime manager liked to say that DiMaggio might have stolen [--] bases a season if he had given him the green light. Stengel his new manager was equally impressed and when DiMaggio was on base he would point to him as an example of the perfect base runner. "Look at him" Stengel would say as DiMaggio ran out a base hit "he's always watching the ball. He isn't watching second base. He isn't watching third base. He knows they haven't been moved. He isn't watching the ground because he knows they haven't built a canal or a swimming pool since he" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2021917269131952158) 2026-02-12T12:00Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements ""Yogi Berra was the only one who played every day batted cleanup did the job defensively and never had a bad season. Roy Campanella was as good as Berra was in his best seasons maybe better and so was Johnny Bench and maybe Mickey Cochrane too. Put all three together and they had about as many great seasons combined as Yogi did by himself." Bill James. "After visiting the Louvre and being asked whether he liked the paintings there Berra said "Yeah if you like paintings." Another time after attending a performance of Tosca in Milan Yogi said "It was pretty good. Even the music was nice." These" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2021922091524558851) 2026-02-12T12:19Z 29.3K followers, 13.7K engagements "There's nothing wrong with pitch counts. But when its spit out by a computer the computer does not look at an individual's mechanics. And you cant look at his genes. It should come from the individual and the pitching coach and the manager. My pitch count as a general rule was [---]. And I knew how many pitches I had when I went to the mound for the last three innings. I'm a huge advocate of pitching. You have to have good pitching as the solid core the foundation. It keeps you in every game." Tom Seaver with Satchel Paige" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2022031005809258639) 2026-02-12T19:32Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements "@bill_dowhen Hallelujah" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2022471365656236302) 2026-02-14T00:42Z 29.3K followers, [---] engagements ""Baseball isnt statistics; its Joe DiMaggio rounding second." Herb Caen San Francisco Chronicle. "I remember Joe DiMaggio's last at-bat in the World Series in 1951; we knew it was going to be his last at-bat. He hit a ball a double to right-centerfield and pulled up into second base in that elegant way he did. And I think there were tears in my eyes I was there that day. And I thought 'That's the last time I'll see him' but he was complete to the end." Roger Angell. "There was never a guy like DiMaggio in baseball. Everybody wanted to meet Joe to touch him to be around him. Joe was a hero a" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2020826523100442950) 2026-02-09T11:46Z 29.3K followers, 11.2K engagements "A very angry Mickey Mantle points and exchanges words with Jim Bunning after Bunning started throwing at Mantles legs. Tiger Stadium [----]. Mickey could also be feeling the pressure of the historic home run race for the record books him and teammate Roger Maris were both involved in. At the time Mantle was stuck on [--] home runs for a week now while Maris had [--]. Jim Bunning struck out Mantle [--] times in [--] at bats. Bunning also held Willie Mays to .213 average allowed Hank Aaron only one home run and laid waste to such luminaries as Harmon Killebrew (.191) Eddie Mathews (.122) Brooks Robinson" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2021921221911167061) 2026-02-12T12:15Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements ""Hoyt Wilhelm's pitching. And Hoyt Wilhelm's all time for me. I'd get up against Hoyt Wilhelm and his first knuckleball you could see it good but it was moving. The second one it's moving more and you'd foul it off and you'd say "Geez that's a good knuckleball.' And now he throws you the three-strike knuckleball. It's all over the place and you're lucky if you don't get hit with it because you don't know where the hell it's going. You could swing at it AND GET HIT BY IT. I was always looking for Wilhelm's knuckleball because geez you were going to get it. I never will forget this one day It" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2022023385853653059) 2026-02-12T19:01Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements ""I've had more numbers on my back than a bingo board." "Well there are three things that the average man thinks he can do better than anybody else. Build a fire run a hotel and manage a baseball team." "You mix two jiggers of Scotch to one jigger of Metrecal. So far I've lost five pounds and my driver's license." "Tommy Lasorda's curve had as much hang time as a Ray Guy punt." Once said he wouldnt eat snails because: I prefer fast food. Explaining why he didnt participate in a pregame cow milking contest when he managed in the minor leagues: I didnt want to get emotionally attached to the" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2022106677940834616) 2026-02-13T00:32Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements ""The biggest difference between baseball and life is time. Time is not important in baseball it used to be many years ago but today they're gonna start and they're gonna play until they get final score. As you and I know there's time in life. It's the most precious thing we have. You know friends so many people have wished me congratulations on a 67-year career in baseball and theyve wished me a wonderful retirement with my family. And now all I can do is tell you what I wish for you. 'May God give you for every storm a rainbow For every tear a smile For every care a promise And a blessing in" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2022279246119399582) 2026-02-13T11:58Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements ""When we got Ted Kluszewski we all thought it was very very good thing. Ted gave us a strong left-handed hitter with a good reputation. We never thought he was past his prime but that he would help us." Billy Pierce. "They got pretty upset but it was either that or change my swing and I wasnt about to change my swing." When Ted Kluszewski joined the Reds he cut off the sleeves of his uniform much to the chagrin of Reds front office. Kluszewski has more career walks (492) then career strikeouts (365). "How hard is hitting You ever walk into a pitch-black room full of furniture that youve never" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2022282625436557480) 2026-02-13T12:12Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements "Wow Please if you can share some pictures with us. Thanks so much @Jimfrombaseball My Down Syndrome son was selected to be an honorary bat boy for a 1/2 inning in [----] during Think Blue week. We were treated like royalty by the Dodgers under Peter O'Malley. The best thing is that Vin Scully the great Vin Scully mentioned my son's name. Never forget that. @Jimfrombaseball My Down Syndrome son was selected to be an honorary bat boy for a 1/2 inning in [----] during Think Blue week. We were treated like royalty by the Dodgers under Peter O'Malley. The best thing is that Vin Scully the great Vin" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2022474893137166626) 2026-02-14T00:56Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements ""So Harvey Kuenn is batting for Bob Hendley. The time on the scoreboard is 9:44. The date September the ninth [----] and Sandy Koufax working on veteran Harvey Kuenn. Sandy into his windup and the pitch a fastball for a strike. He has struck out by the way five consecutive batters and thats gone unnoticed. Sandy ready and the strike one pitch: Very high and he lost his hat. He really forced that one. Thats only the second time tonight where I have had the feeling that Sandy threw instead of pitched trying to get that little extra and that time he tried so hard his hat fell off he took an" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2022646475696541769) 2026-02-14T12:17Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements ""If I had to choose one great moment in my life I'd have to say that one in Milwaukee was it." Hank Aaron. Mickey Mantle just misses this drive by Hank Aaron that goes for a triple Game [--] [----] World Series. Hank Aaron in 1957: .322/.378/.600 .410 wOBA .278 ISO [--] HRs [---] RBI and [---] wRC+ and MVP. The Braves won the series 4-3 behind World Series MVP Lou Burdettes three complete game victories amid ongoing suspicions Burdette was throwing a doctored ball "There should be three pitching statistics for Burdette: Wins Losses and Relative Humidit." Red Smith. "I exploit the greed of all hitters." [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2022647458229072259) 2026-02-14T12:21Z 29.3K followers, [---] engagements ""We picked probably the coldest place in the city to put a ballpark" Willie Mays. "Architect John Bolles the man who has blueprinted the new Giant Stadium at Candlestick Point says the gaily colored park will have drive-in ticket windows a fountain out front that will really be something and a year-round exclusive clubhouse for [---] that will have bars and restaurants." "San Francisco Chronicle" [----]. In [----] Horace Stoneham owner of baseball's New York Giants was in San Francisco looking for a new home for his team. Some local boosters took him to the spot on the shore of San Francisco Bay" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2022648592213651864) 2026-02-14T12:26Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements ""Look at Stengel. When he was with the Yankees loaded with material he was a winner. When he moved over to the Mets he finished last. They voted Casey the greatest living manager. That's a lot of bullshit. A joke. The only thing a manager has to do is relate to the players. Who did Casey ever relate to Nobody but himself. A baseball manager must be alert on every play but at [--] or so youre not too alert." Jackie Robinson. "Oh yes THAT Robason. Well I seen Mr. Paige I seen Mr. Rogan and I seen Mr. Josh Gibson did you ever see that center field wall in Pittsburgh Well Mr. Gibson hit" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2022650991997333529) 2026-02-14T12:35Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements "Story by Whitey Ford. "The White Sox came into Yankee Stadium and I was pitching against them. I took my [--] warm up pitches and they played the National Anthem. Up comes Louie Aparicio. First pitch I throw to him he bunts down third beats it out. One pitch man on first. Nellie Foxgets up. First pitch double down the left field line. Two pitches second and third. Minnie Minoso I threw him a really good curveball but it hit him in the kneecap. So he walks down to first. Now Ive thrown three pitches. Bases are loaded and up comes Ted Kluszewski First pitch high fastball off the right-centerfield" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2022652561367445795) 2026-02-14T12:42Z 29.3K followers, 58.7K engagements ""Once in a scoreless tie game with the Brooklyn Dodgers in [----] Stan Musial came to the plate with runners on first and second and nobody out. Leading the National League in hitting Stan Musial was asked to lay down a sacrifice bunt in order to advance the runners to second and third base. Great hitters are not normally ever called upon to perform such a humble task. They would always expect to hit away in that situation. But Stan Musial laid down a perfect sacrifice bunt and accordingly the next batter drove those two runners home. "Stan Musial once joined his High School basketball" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2022749191584338080) 2026-02-14T19:06Z 29.3K followers, 27.5K engagements ""Joe DiMaggio's grace came to represent more than athletic skill in those years. To the men who wrote about the game it was a talisman a touchstone a symbol of the limitless potential of the human individual. That an Italian immigrant a fisherman's son could catch fly balls the way Keats wrote poetry or Beethoven wrote sonatas was more than just a popular marvel. It was proof positive that democracy was real. On the baseball diamond if nowhere else America was truly a classless society. DiMaggio's grace embodied the democracy of our dreams. "Summer of '49." David Halberstam. "Joe DiMaggio was" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2022751032560820591) 2026-02-14T19:13Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements ""Heroes don't need to talk about what they did" "Shoeless Joe" W. P. Kinsella. In [----] John Wooden began to teach English coach basketball and baseball at Dayton High School. Wooden formulated the principles of his seminal Pyramid of Success model aiming to inspire students and teams to derive most from their potential. The "Pyramid of Success" as based on his fathers advice. John Wooden. Coaching record 218-42. "I dont know whod be run out of town first you or me." John Wooden. In the mid-1960's the Pittsburgh Pirates looking to replace infirm manager Danny Murtaugh very nearly hired John" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2022753056916672929) 2026-02-14T19:21Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements ""I had dinner with Mickey Mantle one night. It was in January in New York and it was really cold. We were walking back to the Regency Hotel where we both were staying and I had noticed that Mickey had asked for a doggie bag for his dinner in the restaurant--which was sort of strange. Anyway he asks me to take a walk with him. Now this wasn't the kind of night where you wanted to take a stroll but I went along over to Madison Avenue where he knew this homeless guy who was in a cardboard box. Mickey Mantle knocks on the cardboard and suddenly this guy pops up his head. He looks frightened--and" [X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/2023010177461420124) 2026-02-15T12:23Z 29.3K followers, [--] engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
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""A man in Chicago a Cubs fan wakes up one morning to find a bear on his roof. So he looks on Google and sure enough. There's an ad for "The Chicago Bear Removers." He calls the number and the man says he'll be over in [--] minutes. The bear remover arrives and gets out of his van. He's got a ladder a baseball bat 12-gauge shotgun and a very mean heavily scarred huge old pit bull. "What are you going to do" the homeowner asks. "I'm going to put this ladder up against the roof then I'm going to go up there and Ill knock the bear off the roof with this baseball bat. When the bear falls off the"
X Link 2026-02-05T11:35Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
""The day after we had pitched a game it was our duty to stand at the gate and afterwards to count the tickets. I remember counting [-----] tickets one day at the Polo Grounds in New York." 'Kid' Nichols. The end of Polo Grounds started in [----] when New York City administration wanted to claim the area. At the last baseball game on September [------] only [----] fans attended it. The stadium was officially closed on December [--] [----] and demolition began on April [--] [----]. The demolition workers wore New York Giants jerseys. And all I see is the Willie Mays catch"
X Link 2026-02-13T19:19Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
""I really saw the ball well all year. I owe my success to expansion pitching a short right field fence and my hollow bats." Norm Cash Cash openly admitted to using an illegal corked bat during the [----] season among others. He drilled a hole in his bats and filled it with a mixture of sawdust cork and glue an art that was taught to him in the minor leagues. Norm Cash on Graig Nettles saying he had no idea his bat was corked that a fan had given it to him. "Why that lying sonofabitch. I ought to know. I used a hollow bat my whole career." But Norm surely not in [----] the year you hit .361 with"
X Link 2026-02-14T01:54Z 29.3K followers, 10.4K engagements
""Information is not knowledge." Albert Einstein In [----] Josh Gibson hit .467 with [--] home runs in [---] games against all levels of competition. In [----] Josh Gibson also played for at least three teams in one year when he played for the Homestead Grays and the Pittsburgh Crawfords in the United States and also played in the Dominican League. In addition to these U.S. and Dominican summer leagues Josh Gibson also played in the Cuban Winter League that same year. Josh Gibson served as the first manager of the 'Cangrejeros de Santurce' at [--] years old one of the most historic franchises of the"
X Link 2026-02-13T11:43Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
""Late in the game I scooped up an ordinary ground ball and threw it over to the pitcher covering first base. It was the same kind of play I had made several hundred times in my big league career just a routine play. But Bill Dickey and Joe Gordon got around me and slapped me on the back and said "Great going Lou" and "Nice stop big boy." They meant it to be kind but it hurt worse than any bawling out I ever received in baseball. They were saying "great stop" because I had fielded a grounder. I decided then and there I would ask Mgr. McCarthy to take me out of the lineup". Lou Gehrig. "I"
X Link 2026-02-13T11:52Z 29.3K followers, 11.4K engagements
""Today we must balance the tears of sorrow with the tears of joy. Mix the bitter with the sweet in death and life. Jackie as a figure in history was a rock in the water creating concentric circles and ripples of new possibility. He was medicine. He was immunized by God from catching the diseases that he fought. The Lord's arms of protection enabled him to go through dangers seen and unseen and he had the capacity to wear glory with grace. Jackie's body was a temple of God. An instrument of peace. We would watch him disappear into nothingness and stand back as spectators and watch the"
X Link 2026-02-13T19:17Z 29.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Hold up there cowboy. John Smoltz to the Atlanta Braves for veteran Doyle Alexander in [----] Tigers trading Jim Bunning was one of the dumbest trades in Tigers history. Up there with trading Verlander Billy Pierce Heinie Manush Hank Greenberg and a few more. Tigers trading Jim Bunning was one of the dumbest trades in Tigers history. Up there with trading Verlander Billy Pierce Heinie Manush Hank Greenberg and a few more"
X Link 2026-02-14T02:12Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
"In the 1970s the Oakland Athletics introduced ball girls girls who would sit in foul territory near the baselines to retrieve baseballs grounded foul by batters. With the help of her sister who was then a secretary at the As offices she was one of the first ones hired. At [--] worked as one of first ball girls for the As. She was paid $5 an hour. She also worked at Marine World where she water-skied as part of the human pyramid and swam with the dolphins. She instituted a milk-and-cookies break for the umpires. "The fans who sat behind me were like my adoptive parents they always worried if I"
X Link 2025-12-26T12:30Z 29.3K followers, 27.7K engagements
"Nobody has won thirty games in a season since Denny McLain did in [----]. No other pitcher has drunk as many Pepsi-Colas broken as many team rules or played the organ as famously as McLain did. And there has never been another World Series game in which both starting pitchers had won the Cy Young AND the MVP awards that year". Bob Gibson. Denny McLain fielding a Bob Gibson grounder. Game [--] [----] World Series. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020109411209953643 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020109411209953643"
X Link 2026-02-07T12:16Z 29.3K followers, 12.7K engagements
""I believe in the Church of Baseball. I've tried all the major religions and most of the minor ones. I've worshipped Buddha Allah Brahma Vishnu Siva trees mushrooms and Isadora Duncan. I know things. For instance there are [---] beads in a Catholic rosary and there are [---] stitches in a baseball. When I learned that I gave Jesus a chance. But it just didn't work out between us. The Lord laid too much guilt on me. I prefer metaphysics to theology. You see there's no guilt in baseball and it's never boring. Which makes it like sex. There's never been a ballplayer slept with me who didn't have the"
X Link 2026-02-11T11:45Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
""Harry Frazee became the owner of the Red Sox in [----] and before long he sold off all of our best players and ruined the team. Sold them all to the Yankees - Ernie Shore Duffy Lewis Dutch Leonard Carl Mays Babe Ruth. Then Wally Schang and Herb Pennock and Joe Dugan and Sam Jones. I was disgusted. The Yankee dynasty of the 1920's was three-quarters of the Red Sox of a few years before. All Frazee wanted was the money". Harry Hooper. In [----] Babe Ruth was a rising star contributing [--] wins with a [----] ERA while also showing promise as a hitter. Rube Foster had a standout season going 19-8 with"
X Link 2026-02-13T11:55Z 29.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Charlie Brown: "Well tomorrow starts another baseball season and." Linus: "I've worked up a few statistics about our baseball team Charlie Brown. I think you'll find they have something to say to all of us." Lucy van Pelt: "I'll bet they have a lot to say" Charlie Brown: "What do they have to say" Linus: "Well last year our opponents scored [----] runs to our total of six runs. They made [----] hits to our [--] hits. And they made four errors to our [---] errors. And while we were losing [---] straight games we." R.I.P. Sparky https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022285098922414280"
X Link 2026-02-13T12:21Z 29.3K followers, [---] engagements
""There were around [---] major-league baseball players when Willie Stargell and I played. Willie Stargell was the only person who was liked by the other [---] players. Not one person ever disliked Willie. Some disliked me or Pete Rose or other players but not Willie." Joe Morgan. Nine different players in Major League history have hit one home run over the roof at Forbes Field. Willie Stargell did it seven times. "Pittsburgh isn't fancy but it is real. It's working town and money doesn't come easy. I feel as much part of this City as the cobblestone streets and the steel mills. People in this"
X Link 2026-02-13T12:24Z 29.3K followers, 28.4K engagements
""I think the next night in [----] we got rained out. I found out where Morgana was dancing. And so I went there I talked to the bouncer at the place and I said Hey Morganna came up and kissed me last night in front of [-----] people. I wanted to run up on stage and kiss her tonight. It was a surprise to her when I did it and weve been best friends ever since and I get Christmas cards from her and her family." George Brett. By [----] Morgana 'The Kissing Bandit' had kissed [--] MLB baseball players [--] NBA players and dozens of minor league baseball basketball and hockey players plus various umpires"
X Link 2026-02-13T12:31Z 29.3K followers, 31.8K engagements
""We won the World Series before it even got started. The Pirates were the other club and the first two games were scheduled for Forbes Field. Naturally we showed up a day early and worked out in the strange park and we won the Series during that workout. We really put on a show. Lou and I banged ball after ball into the right field stands and I finally knocked one out of the park in right center. Bob Meusel and Tony Lazzeri kept hammering balls into the left field seats. One by one the Pirates got up and left the park. Some of them were shaking their heads when we last saw them." Babe Ruth."
X Link 2026-02-14T12:09Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
""Carl Yastrzemski is a dull boring potato farmer from Long Island who just happened to be a great ballplayer. But he was the worst dresser in organized baseball. He made Inspector Clouseau look like a candidate for Mr. Blackwell's list of "Best-Dressed Men". He had the same London Fog raincoat during his entire career. We'd throw it in trashcans all around the league and somehow it mysteriously made its way back. Well Carl is number [--]. So when he lies down for a nap the number turns on its side and becomes infinity. Every time he lies down and he recharges himself." Bill Lee. Living close to"
X Link 2026-02-14T12:38Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
""Love is the most important thing in the world but baseball is pretty good too." Yogi Berra. "Carrying Her Books for Her." Hy Hintermeister [----]. Happy Valentines Day"
X Link 2026-02-14T19:04Z 29.3K followers, [---] engagements
"No one hit home runs the way Babe Ruth did. They were something special. They were like homing pigeons. The ball would leave the bat pause briefly and suddenly gain its bearings then take off for the stands." Lefty Gomez With Babe Ruth Exhibition game Mobile"
X Link 2026-02-14T19:15Z 29.3K followers, [----] 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 2025-01-19T13:21Z 29.3K followers, 15.7K engagements
""The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end of a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest players has engaged in a variety of acts which have stained the game and he must now live with the consequences of those acts. There is absolutely no deal for reinstatement." A. Bartlett Giamatti August [--] [----]. "As all of us are aware and no one more than I Bart had a singular skill as a public speaker. He spoke well because he thought so well. But I point out to you that the most often quoted remark of Bart's brief tenure as Commissioner is a very simple declarative sentence. That"
X Link 2025-08-26T11:15Z 29.2K followers, 15.9K engagements
"On September [--] [----] the Yankees' Graig Nettles hit a home run against the Detroit Tigers. The next time up he hit a broken-bat single. Tigers catcher Bill Freehan scrambled for the six superballs that came bouncing out. "I didn't know there was anything wrong with the bat" Nettles said after the game. "That was the first time I used it. Some Yankees fan in Chicago gave it to me and said it would bring me good luck. There's no brand name on it or anything. Maybe the guy made it himself. It had been in the bat rack and I picked it up by mistake because it looked like the bat I had been using"
X Link 2025-09-02T11:26Z 29.3K followers, [----] 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 2025-09-08T11:02Z 29.2K 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 2025-09-29T20:37Z 29.2K followers, 37.5K engagements
"He built golf course at Vero Beach so black players who couldnt play on local courses could play. Blacks and whites always roomed together on Dodgers when other clubs werent doing this. On Dodger plane you got fed but still got your meal money". Maury Wills on Walter OMalley. "I heard all the black people buzzing about this man in Brooklyn named Jackie Robinson. I asked who he was and they told me. Right then I said 'I want to play for the Dodgers someday.' That was my childhood dream". Maury Wills steals his 104th and final base of the season 1962"
X Link 2025-12-04T12:57Z 29.3K followers, 27K engagements
""Willie Mays who had just turned [--] years old two weeks earlier was sitting in a movie theatrein Sioux City Iowa with his Minneapolis Millers teammate Ray Dandridge who was still toiling in the minors at [--]. The moviewas "Lightning Strikes Twice" a drama about a New York actress who falls for a dude ranch owner recently acquitted of murdering his wife. It was May [--] [----]. Suddenly an announcement pierced the darkened theatre. "Willie Mays please report to the office." At the theatre office Mays found his Minneapolis manager Tommy Heath waiting for him. "Come with me right away" Heath told the"
X Link 2025-12-27T19:27Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
""God please please dont let me die right here in the dirt at home plate at Fenway". Tony Conigliaro. "It was a high fastball. He didnt move at all. He didnt even flinch jerk his head or anything. It was hard to sit there and take a pitch like that. When I found out how serious it was I tried to visit him at the hospital but they were only letting the family in. I never had a chance to see him or say anything to him after that. Pitcher Jack Hamilton. Life went downhill after baseball. While being driven to the airport in [----] Tony suffered debilitating heart attack. Soon after suffered stroke"
X Link 2026-01-08T19:29Z 29.2K followers, 10.2K engagements
""I was born and raised in New York born in the Bronx and grew up in Washington Heights. Our school was about [--] 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"
X Link 2026-01-17T12:07Z 29.3K followers, 16.3K engagements
"On November [--] [----] Chuck Connors of the Boston Celtics becomes the first player in professional basketball to shatter a backboard which he does during warmups. The game was delayed over an hour. The Celtics would lose to the Chicago Stags 57-55. Connors was one of only [--] athletes in the history of American professional sports to have played in both Major League Baseball (Brooklyn Dodgers [----] Chicago Cubs 1951) and the National Basketball Association (Boston Celtics 19461948). Connors was also drafted by Chicago Bears of the NFL but never played for them. Chuck Connors would be best"
X Link 2026-01-21T01:04Z 29.2K followers, 189.6K engagements
""It is a joke. The game is becoming a freaking joke because of the nerds who are running it. These guys played rotisserie baseball at Harvard or wherever the f--- they went and they thought they figured the f---ing game out. They don't know s---. A bunch of f---ing nerds running the game. You can't slide into second base. You can't take out the f---ing catcher because Posey was in the wrong position and they are going to change all the rules. You can't pitch inside anymore. I'd like to knock some of these f---ers on their ass. Ryan Braun is a f---ing steroid user. He gets a standing ovation"
X Link 2026-01-21T12:55Z 29.3K followers, 60.3K engagements
""When I was a boy growing up in Cuba Luis Tiant was a National Hero. Now I'm [--] and he's 37." Tony Perez. "I've never heard anything like that "Loo-Eee Loo-Eee Loo-Eee" chanting in Fenway Park in my life. But I'll tell you one thing: Luis Tiant deserved every bit of it." Carl Yastrzemski. "Luis Tiant and I would each be fighting for thirty wins if Tiant had our kind of hitting to go with his kind of pitching" Denny McLain. Indians pitcher Luis Tiant once struck out [--] Minnesota Twins in [--] innings. In [----] many remember 31-game winner Denny McLain. Some forget that the 21-game winner Luis"
X Link 2026-01-22T12:28Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
"On September [--] [----] the Yankees' Graig Nettles hit a home run against the Detroit Tigers. The next time up he hit a broken-bat single. The Tigers catcher Bill Freehan scrambled for the six superballs that came bouncing out. "I didn't know there was anything wrong with the bat" Nettles said after the game. "That was the first time I used it. Some Yankees fan in Chicago gave it to me and said it would bring me good luck. There's no brand name on it or anything. Maybe the guy made it himself. It had been in the bat rack and I picked it up by mistake because it looked like the bat I had been"
X Link 2026-01-23T19:22Z 29.3K followers, 22.3K 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 base 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"
X Link 2026-01-24T13:29Z 29.2K followers, 348.3K engagements
""I'll never forget that first night with the team. Going to the ballpark on the bus was the hardest [--] minutes of my life. I had to walk down that aisle between all the players. I really didn't know too much about the Detroit Tigers at that time. All of a sudden I'm in the major leagues and we're travelling from town to town. I see the other players dressing different every day. I've got only one suit and I keep wearing it over and over. I'm really embarrassed." Al Kaline. At Comiskey the Tigers Al Kaline is knocked out cold from a Bob Shaw pitch in the sixth inning during the Tigers 7-1 win"
X Link 2026-01-24T13:31Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements
""It was like watching someone drown. If it's true that you learn from adversity then I must be the smartest son of a bitch in the world." Gene Mauch managing the [----] Philadelphia Phillies during their historic collapse from a 6.5-game lead with [--] games left. Jim Bunning started on September [--] [--] [--] [--] [--] and [--] and October [--]. Four games down the stretch that he started on just [--] days' rest and [--] on [--] days' rest. Jim Bunning went 19-8 with [----] ERA. [----] Pennant Race "Gene Mauch confused us. All season he screamed yelled and hollered and threw things around the clubhouse then during the"
X Link 2026-01-27T13:26Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Bill Veeck fired Rogers Hornsby midway through the [----] season. The players celebrated by sending Bill Veeck a trophy calling it The greatest play since the Emancipation Proclamation. @retired_marine1 @Jimfrombaseball When Hornsby alienated Bill Veeck and got fired as the manager of the St. Louis Browns Browns players led by pitcher Ned Garver chipped in to purchase an engraved thank you trophy which they gave Veeck. @retired_marine1 @Jimfrombaseball When Hornsby alienated Bill Veeck and got fired as the manager of the St. Louis Browns Browns players led by pitcher Ned Garver chipped in to"
X Link 2026-01-28T00:08Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements
""Between me and my roommate we've hit [---] Major League home runs." Bob Uecker. Roomed with Eddie Mathews and had only one home run"
X Link 2026-01-28T19:16Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements
""Hank Bauer played on some of the greatest teams that ever played and brought the Baltimore Orioles their first World Series title. That's saying something. He was a players' manager. He didn't over complicate things. He was my first manager in the major leagues. He gave me my first opportunity in [----] when he could have kept other people. I was lucky; he was a Jim Palmer fan. You can't get in the Hall of Fame without your first chance." Jim Palmer [--] years old [----]. Palmer pitched nearly [----] innings in his career and never gave up a grand slam or back to back home runs. Palmers [----] season"
X Link 2026-01-30T12:27Z 29.3K followers, [----] 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 [--] a.m. back in New York. "We're staying at a nice hotel" he said "and all the rooms are round."
X Link 2026-01-30T12:36Z 29.2K followers, 34.3K engagements
""I imagine myself as the broadcaster for a Cubs-White Sox World Series a Series that would last seven games with the final game going extra innings before being suspended because of darkness at Wrigley Field." Jack Brickhouse. "We came out of the dugout for opening day and saw a fan holding up a sign saying Wait Till Next Year. Moe Drabowsky on the late 1950s Cubs "The longest running daytime soap opera in history and the only one without a doctor in it". Arne Harris on Cub broadcasts. "The greatest man to play on a wretched team since Robert E. Lee" Scott Simon on Ernie Banks."
X Link 2026-01-30T19:01Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements
""The day before Bob Gibson had dusted Willie Mays and almost beaned him. The next day Willie Mays had Bob Gibson and his former teammate Bill White visit his home in San Francisco. When Mays answered the door he welcomed Bill White but asked who was that with him. White says Bob Gibson. Mays didnt recognize him since Gibson wore glasses away from the field. "I was wearing glasses at the time but I never did wear 'em on the field. When Willie opened his front door I'm standing behind Bill White and Mays says 'Who is that ' "Bill says 'That's Gibson.' "Mays said 'You wear glasses Man you gonna"
X Link 2026-01-30T19:10Z 29.2K followers, 31.3K engagements
""When I was a kid man my Dad used to buy me the Ted Williams glove at Sears with the Ted Williams shoes with the eight stripes on 'em. I used to play Little League and I was Ted Williams-ed out. I was a contact hitter my whole career but I learned how to handle the ball inside. And Ted Williams played a big part in that. He gave me the advice on how to handle inside pitches. The only thing I want people to say about me is that I played the game the way it should be played. What I've always wanted to do is be a complete player. This is as close as I've ever come to it" Tony Gwynn. "A Baseball"
X Link 2026-01-31T12:37Z 29.2K followers, [----] 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. Mantle 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 2026-01-31T13:04Z 29.2K followers, 19.3K engagements
""It's a wierd scene. I keep telling myself don't get cocky. Give your services to press and media be nice to the kids throw a baseball into the stands once in a while. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters asking you about Vietnam and race relations. I think I have signed some scrap of paper for every man woman and child in the United States. What do they do with all those scraps of paper with my signature on it Vida Blue. "He was left-handed. God he threw hard as hell. He was the true definition of a power pitcher. I remember his first games in the"
X Link 2026-01-31T19:35Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Asked in the late 1950's what he would hit if he played today Ty Cobb replied "about .275." When the interviewer expressed shock Cobb added "I am almost [--] years old". Ty Cobb. Professional Baseball Player. Royston Georgia [----] @Jimfrombaseball In the movie Cobb when he was asked how he would do against todays pitchers. It went something like this; he said I would probably hit around .260. The guy then asked him if todays pitchers were that much better. He replied well Im [--] yrs old. Is that a true story @Jimfrombaseball In the movie Cobb when he was asked how he would do against todays"
X Link 2026-02-01T00:11Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements
""Right now Yogi Berra does about everything wrong but Casey Stengel warned me about that. The main thing is Berra has speed and agility behind the plate and a strong enough arm. He just needs to be taught to throw properly. I know he can hit. I'd say Berra has the makings of a good catcher. I won't say great but certainly a good one." Bill Dickey. "Yogi Berra" Earl Mayan [----]. "I knew I was going to take the wrong train so I left early." Yogi Berra Berra and his Yankees teammate Joe DiMaggio are the only players to hit [---] or more home runs while striking out fewer than [---] times in their"
X Link 2026-02-01T12:39Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements
""I never got anything out of the game but what it paid me this is the luckiest thing that ever happened to me in my life. I couldnt be happier." Dickey Kerr. In [----] while managing the "Daytona Beach Islanders" in the Florida State League one of Dickey Kerrs pitchers came up with a sore arm. Being fairly decent with a bat Dickey Kerr convinced him to become an outfielder. The pitcher was Stan Musial. "I convinced him that he wasnt much of pitcher. As a batter he was a natural. You might say Stan Musial was million dollar accident." Dickey Kerr. During spring training in [----] Mgr. Dickey Kerr"
X Link 2026-02-01T12:50Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements
""I couldnt have ever seen this happening growing up. Dont get up Mr. Mays youre getting up for me" The two exchanged pleasantries as cameras snapped. "Enjoy this" Mays told Tim Lincecum. Tim Lincecum was a 5'9" 170-pound starting pitcher that looked more like he belonged on a Little League field than on a major league mound. "Tim Lincecum made pitching look effortless. After the game hed joked about needing to hurry home to feed his goldfish and catch the latest episode of his favorite anime. Yet behind that unassuming exterior was a pitcher who could make a baseball move like no other"
X Link 2026-02-01T13:03Z 29.2K followers, 13K engagements
""The fact that Lou Gehrig was able to play that whole season was just amazing. Your body is beginning to shut down. Your muscles are getting disconnected from your brain. And yet he was able to play every single game. Lou Gehrig still had [--] home runs he still drove in [---] and he was still the first baseman on a team that won the World Series. How does he do that How does anybody do that You can make an argument that its the greatest individual performance in baseball history." Last Ride of the Iron Horse. Dan Joseph. "You have to get knocked down to realize how people really feel about you."
X Link 2026-02-02T11:47Z 29.3K followers, 12.4K engagements
"11-year-old Robert Cotter caught a foul ball one day at a Philadelphia Phillies game and like any fan refused to give it back even when team officials demanded it. The consequences were severe. The team had the boy arrested not only for keeping the property but also after accusing him of sneaking in to the game without paying for his ticket. Robert Cotter was forced to spend an entire night in jail until being freed the next day when a sympathetic judge found that it was entirely reasonable that a kid could keep a foul ball at a baseball game. And besides the judge noted he made a really good"
X Link 2026-02-02T11:54Z 29.3K followers, 19.6K engagements
"At the age of [--] Joe DiMaggio was sitting with the American League President and ex-teammate Dr. Bobby Brown at Candlestick Park when the [----] San Francisco earthquake hit. Joe 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"
X Link 2026-02-03T11:49Z 29.3K followers, 36.2K engagements
"If it happened to me I would have been useless out there. That was enough to take the starch out of anyone. Ted Williams citing a mission that Jerry Coleman flew deep into North Korea when Colemans best friend and roommate Major Max Harper was shot down in front of him. Coleman watched the plane crash. There was nothing Jerry Coleman could do but finish the mission. "There were times when you were flying up there and realized that all you were doing was practising death. If my country needed me I was ready. Besides the highlight of my life had always been even including baseball flying for"
X Link 2026-02-03T11:52Z 29.3K followers, 11.9K engagements
""Early in his 16-year major league career Johnny Callison was labelled 'the next Mickey Mantle.' His manager with the Phillies Gene Mauch said Callison could 'run throw field and hit with power. There's nothing he can't do well on the ball field.' These encomiums proved burdens that the always sensitive Callison found difficult to live up to. His career spent briefly with the Chicago White Sox then for ten years with the Phillies before finishing with short stays with the Cubs and Yankees was marked by what-ifs and what might have beens." "The Year of the Blue Snow: The [----] Philadelphia"
X Link 2026-02-03T11:59Z 29.2K followers, 19.8K engagements
""Nobody has won [--] games since Denny McLain. No other pitcher has drunk as many Pepsi-Colas broken as many team rules and played the organ as famously as McLain did. And there has never been another World Series game in which both starting pitchers had won the Cy Young and the MVP awards. Bob Gibson They only had one pitcher. That was Gibson. The rest of them werent very good. We were surprised at how bad their pitching was. But what St. Louis did is much like what we did. Play fundamentally sound baseball. If you play the game soundly you will win. Denny McLain on Bob Gibson."
X Link 2026-02-03T12:02Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
"When the Astros snatched Don Sutton up in [----] with a four-year $3.1 million offer it was impossible for Tommy Lasorda not to take it personally. Don Sutton had been a Walter Alston man publicly lobbying for coach Jeff Torborg to replace the storied manager in [----] even when Lasorda was all but a lock for the position. I just dont believe that I could play for a manager whos a headline grabber who isnt honest Sutton said at the time later refusing to become one of Lasordas bobos. Things grew so heated that Lasorda challenged Sutton to settle their differences with fists. The pitcher declined."
X Link 2026-02-03T20:28Z 29.3K followers, 55.6K engagements
"Great work @Jimfrombaseball Wow. 🥰 I loved him as a 5th grader growing up in Mansfield OH when he was playing for Birdie T. ⚾ https://t.co/9vBLJDyS8D @Jimfrombaseball Wow. 🥰 I loved him as a 5th grader growing up in Mansfield OH when he was playing for Birdie T. ⚾ https://t.co/9vBLJDyS8D"
X Link 2026-02-03T21:17Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
""In the [----] World Series despite the hostility between the Yankees and the Braves Yogi Berra went out of his way to learn his experience to [--] year-old Henry Aaron who after all had hit only .322 that season. "Hank" Yogi reminded the [----] National League's Batting Champ in a tone of avuncular concern "you need to hold the bat so you can read the label. You're gonna break that bat. You've to to be able to read the label." "Didn't come up here to read" Aaron calmly replied. Berra and Aaron Spring Training. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019018513508184247"
X Link 2026-02-04T12:01Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements
""I heard a lot about the Negro Leagues and then I started listening to the Detroit Tigers baseball games. I had a couple of favorites Charlie Gehringer and Hank Greenberg. My father would never take me to the games because of the racial situation. But whenever a Black team came to town with Satchel Paige Turkey Stearnes and some of those guys he would take me to the games. We had a park called Mack Park where the Detroit Stars played. When that burned down they moved to Hamtramck Stadium and I often went to see games when I was quite young. There were big crowds and on Sundays people would"
X Link 2026-02-04T19:46Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements
""The Giants were playing the Dodgers at Ebbetts Field. The Giants were ahead by one run. Two outs. Bottom of the ninth. Bases loaded. And Bobby Morgan the young third baseman for the Dodgers hit a high line drive to the gap in left-center field. Your first thought was that it was an extra-base hit and the Dodgers were going to win it. But Willie Mays went racing to the warning track which was made of gravel in those days and made a diving full-extension catch as the ball was sinking. Then after the catch he bounced on his chest right into the base of the concrete wall and knocked himself"
X Link 2026-02-04T19:54Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements
""I guess you could say that I'm the redemption of the fat man. A guy will be watching me on TV and see that I don't look in any better shape than he is. 'Hey Maude' he'll holler. 'Get a load of this guy. And he's a 20-game winner. Get me another beer'". Mickey Lolich Tigers pitcher Mickey Lolich poses with new teammate Frank Howard in [----]. Howard is wearing a Lolich jersey because a larger jersey could not be ordered in time for Detroits game against the Oakland As. Howard had been sold by the Texas Rangers to the Tigers. Lolich Charlie Silvera Howard. Go easy"
X Link 2026-02-04T20:03Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
"On June [--] [----] Babe Ruth took the mound against the Washington Senators and walked the leadoff hitter Ray Morgan. As Morgan took his free pass to first base Babe Ruth began jawing with Umpire Brick Owens. Get in there and pitch the umpire ordered. Open your eyes and keep them open Ruth yelled. Get in and pitch or I will run you out of there Owens warned. You run me out and I will come in and bust you on the nose the Babe replied. Ruth continued to argue balls and strikes with home plate umpire Brick Owens so vociferously that he was ejected from the game. Ruth rushed to the plate to argue."
X Link 2026-02-05T11:39Z 29.2K followers, 10.2K engagements
""One day after striking out he came into dugout and kicked ball bag. It really hurt. He sat down and sweat popped out on his forehead. He clenched his fists without ever saying a word. Everybody in the dugout wanted to howl but he was a god. You don't laugh at gods." Jerry Coleman on Joe DiMaggio "There was an aura about him. He walked like no one else walked. He did things so easily. He was immaculate in everything he did. Kings of State wanted to meet him and be with him. He carried himself so well. He could fit in any place in the world." Phil Rizzuto. Joe DiMaggio first came under HOF"
X Link 2026-02-05T11:40Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements
""Billy Martin said I was his workhorse and he gave me a load of confidence. I liked the guy and he made all the difference for me in my career. He was the best manager I ever played for. He knew what was going on and was always two innings ahead of the other manager. One game I got out of the inning and when I walked into dugout Martin said Who theF***were you looking at I said I was getting shelled thought you might make a move. Billy said dont you remember I said that you are in game until at least sixth no matter what score is I never used ice. I would stand in the shower after a game soak"
X Link 2026-02-05T11:47Z 29.3K followers, 12K engagements
"Dont you know Im God" Muhammad Ali. God you in the wrong place tonight. Joe Frazier. "The Fight of the Century" 1971"
X Link 2026-02-05T11:51Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements
""Well I just got into town about an hour ago Took a look around see which way the wind blow 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". In [----] Jim Morrisonmet Lana Elliott at "Whisky a Go-Go" in Los Angeles. After Jimhad wrecked his car and had no way home Lana took him to her Hollywood bungalow above Sunset Blvd. Jiminvited himself along to dinner with her family in Granada Hills and and enjoyed some fondue with the family. After dinner Jimplayed baseball with Lanas younger siblings."
X Link 2026-02-05T11:55Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Ron Santo hits a tremendous home run in Philadelphia 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." [----]. Neil Armstrong's first words after stepping on the moon "That's one small step for Man One giant leap for mankind" were televised to earth and heard by millions of people. But just before he re-entered the Lunar Lander he made the enigmatic remark: "Good luck Mr. Gorsky." Many people at NASA thought it was a casual remark"
X Link 2026-02-05T12:00Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements
"""Schaefer is the one beer to have when you're having more than one". "'Schaefer Beer' was the official beer sponsor of the Brooklyn Dodgers from [----] until the franchise's departure for Los Angeles following the [----] season. During that span one of its advertisement was featured at the top of Ebbets Field's scoreboard on the right-field wall. The letters 'h' or the first 'e' on the wordmark lit up depending on whether the official scorer ruled that a batter reached base on a hit or an error respectively"
X Link 2026-02-05T18:58Z 29.2K followers, [----] 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. "The night after I was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in January [----] I went out to dinner with some friends to the "River Cafe" in Brooklyn. We were dining quietly in a corner when some people recognized me and pretty soon the whole place was applauding and someone had a bottle of champagne sent to our table and toasted us. Then a young man about thirty came over to the"
X Link 2026-02-05T18:59Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements
""It was the Black Panthers who made the death threat against me. They told me I was going to be assassinated the next night game I pitched. I had to go out there and pitch. Everyone in the ball club knew I was under a threat because there was a lot of FBI guys and snipers around the ballpark up on the roof of Tiger Stadium and things like that. Finally as I threw my last warm-up pitch before the first inning Norm Cash came over to me on the mound and said Mick I wish you a lot of luck in this game and Ill never talk to you again because two targets are harder to hit than one. And then Cash"
X Link 2026-02-05T19:07Z 29.3K followers, 19K engagements
""Satchel Paige was the best pitcher I ever saw." Bob Feller "Satch was the greatest pitcher in baseball." Ted Williams "The best and fastest pitcher I've ever faced." Joe DiMaggio "The best right hander baseball has ever known." Bill Veeck "It starts out like a baseball and when it gets to the plate it looks like a marble." Hack Wilson "Satchel Paige was the toughest pitcher I ever faced. I couldn't do much with him. All the years I played there I never got a hit off of him. He threw fire." Buck Leonard Satchel Paige With the Kansas City Monarchs Pittsburgh Crawfords and Harlem Stars. Art by"
X Link 2026-02-06T11:43Z 29.2K followers, 30.3K 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 the Cincinnati Red Stockings at the White House in [----]. Also a base ball match in [----] pitting the rivals Yale and Harvard "nines" against each"
X Link 2026-02-06T11:45Z 29.2K followers, 17.7K engagements
""I copied Shoeless Joe Jackson's style because I thought he was the greatest hitter I had ever seen the greatest natural hitter I ever saw. He's the guy who made me a hitter." Babe Ruth. "I said to Eddie Collins 'Tell me about Joe Jackson'. Well I'll never forget what he did. Eddie dropped his head when I said 'Joe Jackson' and he thought for maybe three or four seconds then Eddie looked up at the ceiling shook his head and said: 'Boy what a player he was." Ted Williams. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019740627500425309 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019740627500425309"
X Link 2026-02-06T11:51Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements
""When I first started playing ball about [----] I used a big Trapper mitt at first base. Id snag everything one-handed. In [----] they used those small gloves with the five stubby fingers and no webbing. In the movie we use the same kind. So just about the first ball hit to me in the outfield I wave everybody off and yell I got it. It looked like an easy catch. The ball bounced off that little glove and hit me right on the head. It was a very small glove not much bigger than your hand. When the ball would come to you youd put that glove on it and that thing went through the fingersand a couple"
X Link 2026-02-06T11:58Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements
""To many uppity New Yorkers a visit to Shea Stadium was akin to sleeping in a sewer. From the blue paint peeling off the seats and the incessant noise of LaGuardia Airport jet traffic to the charmless concrete walkways and the goofy jumbo-sized apple beyond the outfield wall that glowed with every Met home run the place especially compared to palatial Yankee Stadium was a housing project surrounding a diamond. Yet it was our housing project and the Mets rolled out the red carpet for the average man." "The Bad Guys Won" Jeff Pearlman. "Nobody has ever called Shea a cathedral. In style it was"
X Link 2026-02-06T12:00Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements
""Pee Wee Reese looked into Cincinnati dugout and the grandstands beyond as the slurs and heckling were coming from both Cincinnati ballplayers and fans. Some were shouting out terms like shoeshine boy snowflake and much worse. Reese however did not call out at the taunters or the Cincinnati dugout. But he kept his arm around Robinsons shoulder." Roger Kahn. "They were riding Pee Wee about being a Southerner and playing baseball with black man. He left his position at shortstop and walked over to me. He put his hand on my shoulder and began talking to me. His words werent important. It was"
X Link 2026-02-06T12:04Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Tom Seaver was named on [---] out of [---] ballots for the Baseball Hall of Fame. Three ballots were blank as a protest against Pete Rose being ineligible. One was sent by a writer recovering from surgery who did not notice Tom Seaver's name on the ballot and one never voted for any player in their first year of eligibility. In [----] Ken Griffey Jr. was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame receiving 99.32% of the vote breaking pitcher Tom Seaver's record of 98.84% a record that had stood for [--] years. Tom Seaver is one of TWO pitchers EVER in the 'Triple [--] Club'. [---] wins/sub [--] ERA/3000"
X Link 2026-02-06T18:52Z 29.2K followers, 44.7K engagements
"Hall of Famers' Hank Aaron and Carl Yastrzemski both played their final MLB game [----] days after their MLB debut"
X Link 2026-02-06T18:55Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
""Al Kaline was an icon not only to the Tigers organization but to all of baseball. Kaline meant a great deal to me coming up through the Tigers organization. I was smart enough to watch and learn from the way he carried himself both off the field and on it. Al Kaline was as good as they come." Alan Trammell. He was the kind of prospect a scout sees in his dream. Tigers scout Ed Katalinas. Al Kaline wore uniform No. [--] his first two seasons 1953-54 before donning No. [--] and becoming the American League batting Champion with a .340 average at age [--] in [----]. The same day Al Kaline graduated from"
X Link 2026-02-06T18:59Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements
""It was real hatred. Fisk hated Munson. Munson hated Fisk. Everyone hated Bill Lee." Don Zimmer on the rivalry between the Yankees and the Red Sox of the 1970's. "If I am remembered by anyone I would want it to be as a guy who cared about the planet and welfare of his fellow man. And who would take you out at second if the game was on the line." Bill Lee"
X Link 2026-02-06T19:01Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Stan Musial was one of my favourite ballplayers because he treated everybody the same black or white superstar or scrub and he genuinely loved the game. When he and I were part of a group of players who toured Vietnam Stan Musial became the first white man I ever roomed with. For my money Stan was the greatest gentleman in the game." "I Had a Hammer" Hank Aaron Joe Torre Hank Aaron Harmon Killebrew Brooks Robinson Stan Musial. My Tho [----]. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019850456474767603 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019850456474767603"
X Link 2026-02-06T19:07Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Future Mets owner Fred Wilpon was the captain and star pitcher of the Lafayette High baseball team while Sandy Koufax played first base and pitched occasionally. Sandy Koufax went to high school in Brooklyn and came to University of Cincinnati on a basketball scholarship. At the time freshman weren't permitted to play varsity college basketball. As a 6'1" forward Koufax averaged [---] points per game on the 1953-54 basketball. Koufax joined the baseball in part because the team was travelling to New Orleans on a spring trip and Koufax wanted to go. Sandy Koufax struck out [--] batters including"
X Link 2026-02-06T23:48Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements
"On Dec [--] [----] the New York Jets played the New England Patriots at Shea Stadium. However it was a halftime incident that the [-----] spectators probably remember most. For the sum of $800 The Electronic Eagles of the Radio Controlled Association of Greater New York put on a [--] minute show of radio controlled airplanes and one flying lawnmower. Most of you are probably thinking; Is it a good idea to fly dozens of radio controlled planes over the heads of [-----] in a windy open aired stadium like Shea Most of you probably came to the conclusion that the answer would be a resounding no. But you're"
X Link 2026-02-07T00:41Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements
""Everybody knew what was coming but still couldn't hit him. Walter's right arm was different than yours or mine. It was special like Caruso's lungs or Einstein's brain." "Chief" Myers on Senators pitcher Walter Johnson. "Keep it. I don't want it." Ray Chapman after watching two Walter Johnson fastball strikes and heading back to the dugout being told by the umpire that he had another strike coming. "Babe Ruth once suffered the humiliation of having the great Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators throw three straight fastballs past him. Ruth asked the umpire if he had seen any of the"
X Link 2026-02-07T11:43Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements
""Ill never forget the night I went home and told my mother that I was going to quit college and go into baseball. She broke down and cried when I told her. She insisted that I should stay on in school. "Ill be well again soon" she said "and then everything will be all right." Like me she didnt think I could make good in baseball and she was afraid that I would be let out in a few weeks and then Id be out of college as well as out of a job too. It was a tough spot" "You think youre a ballplayer" Ty Cobb said to me one day at the Stadium. "All you can do is hit that ball. If youre a ballplayer"
X Link 2026-02-07T11:48Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
""Vince Scully and I were attending Fordham Prep High School in [----]. At a school assembly Vince was sitting behind me grabbed me by the shoulders and said: Larry someday you will be in the big leagues and the first time you hit a home run I will be the announcer and tell the world about it. Sure enough it happened in [----]. I was with the Cardinals and the first time we played in New York Eddie Stanky put me in left field and I hit a home run (my first) off of Preacher Roe and beat him for the first time in two years. Vin Scully had joined Red Barber on radio broadcasts and he actually told"
X Link 2026-02-07T11:58Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements
""I don't regret for one minute the twelve years I've spent in baseball but I could regret one season too many. I've got a lot of years to live after baseball and I would like to live them with the complete use of my body. I tried to do a consistently good job - that was my goal. I loved to play. I loved the game. And I'll miss it. My only regret is leaving baseball. I still don't know how much I am going to miss it but I know I am going to miss a lot of things." Sandy Koufax. After finishing the Cy Young season with 27-9 record and a league-leading [----] ERA 30-year-old Sandy Koufax shocks"
X Link 2026-02-07T12:00Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements
""I was a pretty good pitcher you know I threw a no-hitter. I threw pretty hard actually. I had a workout with the Braves. I was like [--] years old and they invited me down there during the afternoon. The catcher was a guy named Bob Keely. The pitching coach was a guy named Johnny Cooney. Im on the sidelines throwing down at County Stadium. And like I said I was a pretty good pitcher and Im down there humping pretty good. I threw upper 80s low 90s maybe. Id been playing sandlot baseball and we won a City Championship a couple years in a row with 'Rohr Jewellers' downtown. We were good. So Im"
X Link 2026-02-07T12:02Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements
""When I was a kid my Dad would bring me to the ballpark and we'd have a catch on the field then I'd be hanging in the clubhouse with Pete Sheehy the clubhouse guy. Mickey Mantle would always come in late after the whole team was already on the field. When I asked my Dad why Mickey was always late he shook his head and immediately set me straight. "Mickey's not late" he said. "He just doesn't want anyone to see him putting all those bandages on his legs." Everyone knew Mickey had to wrap the heck out of his knees but he didn't want anyone to see him do it. He didn't want them to think it was"
X Link 2026-02-07T12:08Z 29.2K followers, 11.9K engagements
"In [----] and at age [--] Spottswood Poles joined the '369th Infantry Harlem Hellfighters attached to the French Army since the US military didn't allow Black men to serve at the time. Poles earned [--] Battle stars and Purple Heart for combat in France as sergeant. Hit from .414 to .487 in the Negro Leagues. The fastest player in his day Poles ran a 100-meter race in less than [--] seconds. Negro Leaguer' Sam Streeter who saw both 'Cool Papa' Bell and Poles play thought Poles was faster. Poles had batting averages of .440 .398 .414 and .487 against all competition. Credited with [----] hits [---] home"
X Link 2026-02-07T12:14Z 29.2K followers, [---] engagements
""Lou Boudreau is easily the slowest ballplayer since Ernie Lombardi was thrown out at first base trying to stretch a double into a single". Stanley Frank. "The slowest man to ever play major league baseball well". Bill James. "Next to Ernie molasses is a blur". Anonymous teammate. "Lombardi was so slow he ran like he was carrying a pianoand the tuner". Ernie Lombardi topped .300 on [--] different occasions won a pair of batting titles [----] and [----] becoming first catcher to win multiple batting crowns. Named National League MVP in [----]. Nothing about Lombardi was conventional including his"
X Link 2026-02-07T19:35Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements
""I cant believe that Babe Ruth was a better player than Willie Mays. Babe Ruth is to baseball what Arnold Palmer is to golf. He got the game moving. But I cant believe he could run as well as Mays and I cant believe he was any better an outfielder." Sandy Koufax. "I think anybody who saw him will tell you that Willie Mays was the greatest player who ever lived." Monte Irvin. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020221250254291449 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020221250254291449"
X Link 2026-02-07T19:40Z 29.3K followers, 11.3K engagements
""I can see the sun OK and that's [--] million miles away." Umpire Bruce Froemming after having his eyesight questioned by Lou Piniella"
X Link 2026-02-07T19:41Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements
""Baseball has no penalties at all. A home run is a home run. You cheer. In football on a score you look for flags. If there's one who's it on When can we cheer Football acts can be repealed. Baseball acts stand forever". Thomas Boswell Summers and Berra. [----] World Series. "Robinson was coming in. I didnt move because I had to stay to make call on the pitch first. Thats why I stayed crouched over. I saw it perfectly. Yogi put the ball at the back of the plate Robinson slid across the plate into the glove. Im satisfied I made call right. Umpire Bill Summers. "I talked to Jackie about that call"
X Link 2026-02-07T19:46Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements
""All in all it was a terrific day in Commerce as a parade and celebration honored Mickey Mantle and his young wife Merlyn". "The Oklahoma" [----]. I developed an instant crush on Mickey Mantle and by our second or third date I was in love with him and always would be". Merlyn Mantle "Mickey it's only a game." Mickey Mantles 's wife Merlyn trying to console him after losing the [----] World Series. "Mickey had everything going for him. "He had the good looks and innocence we wanted to see in our heroes. He had outstanding strength. He even had that billboard name. Mickey was exceptional and the"
X Link 2026-02-07T19:48Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@MatthewNichol5 Again Every day"
X Link 2026-02-07T21:09Z 29.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Thank you David @Jimfrombaseball I graduated from Fordham Prep thirty years after this. My Latin teacher had taught Vin and was the baseball coach. He said Vin was exceptional kind and was good field no hit in CF. Vin left one million dollars to the Prep in his will @Jimfrombaseball I graduated from Fordham Prep thirty years after this. My Latin teacher had taught Vin and was the baseball coach. He said Vin was exceptional kind and was good field no hit in CF. Vin left one million dollars to the Prep in his will"
X Link 2026-02-08T00:15Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements
""Boston Red Sox pitcher Hub Leonard would aim bullets at your head left handed to boot. I once dragged a bunt which the first baseman was forced to field. Leonard sprinted for first to take the throw and saw that I was after him. He wouldn't have been safe that day if he'd scrambled into the top bleachers. I ignored the bag-since I was already out-and dove feet first right through the coaching box. He managed to duck but the escape was close enough medicine for him. Leonard never threw another beanball at me. I may have been fierce but never low or underhand. Baseball is a red-blooded sport"
X Link 2026-02-08T11:49Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
""Whatever Lou Gehrig does in the future doesn't count. He has had fourteen great seasons and I mean great. If I could have only ten of them I'd be satisfied. Here's a fellow who has lasted 'til he's thirty-six and only this morning I was wondering and me twenty-four how long I'll last. Say if I could go ten more years 'til I'm thirty-four I'd be glad to call it a career. Lou Gehrig welcomed me with open arms he made the transition very easy. It was his will and desire and character that drove us to all those pennants and you couldn't help but try to emulate the man. He never did say very much"
X Link 2026-02-08T11:50Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements
""Babe Ruth was very brave at the plate. You rarely saw him fall away from a pitch. He stayed right in there. No one drove him out." Casey Stengel. "He was like all boys full of mischief. They always said he was bad but he wasnt bad just full of mischief. He didnt like school. Thats why Daddy put him in St. Marys. The only thing he was interested in was baseball. I always figured he would make a good baseball player because he loved the game so much." Mary "Mamie" Ruth Babes sister. She and Babe were the only two of their parents' [--] children to survive infancy. Mary "Mamie" Ruth was proud of"
X Link 2026-02-08T11:52Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements
"As far as I'm concerned Hank Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years as to what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due. Mickey Mantle on Hank Aaron. "In [----] a little town called Eau Claire and the City of Milwaukee helped to shape my dreams and helped to mold me into the man I am today. I can never forget that here I found acceptance encouragement self-confidence and lifelong friends." Hank Aaron. Henry Aaron led the league in everything except hotel accommodations. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020467388806828243"
X Link 2026-02-08T11:58Z 29.2K followers, [----] 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. "I never wanted all this hoopla. All I wanted is to be a good ball player hit twenty-five or thirty homers drive in a hundred runs hit .280 help my club win pennants. I just wanted to be one of the guys an average player having a good season. I don't want to be Babe Ruth. He was a great ballplayer. I'm not trying to replace him. The record is there and damn right I want to break it but that isn't"
X Link 2026-02-08T12:02Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements
""Ray Nitschke had great study habits and analyzed as much film as Bart Starr. Nitschke used to drive Vince Lombardi crazy during practice because he was able to call out all the offensive plays before the snap. He would run around screaming Watch out for the pass; watch out for the draw Vince would scream at him to shut up. Ray would just grin and after a play or two Lombardi would start screaming again. The most amazing thing about Nitschke is that he played his entire career on one leg. Ray Nitschkes left leg had been injured so much in High School and in College that the muscles had"
X Link 2026-02-08T12:07Z 29.2K followers, [---] engagements
""There is a young man on the New York Yankees roster that is being overlooked and will make New York sit up and take notice next summer. That young man is George Halas." "The Chicago Tribune". "It is unusual for a college player to jump into the big leagues and become a regular the first season but this is just the thing that Halas threatens to do. He is swift afoot and is a heady and proficient base runner. He covers a lot of ground in the outfield and best of all he is a world of enthusiasm for the game. New York Times. George Halas played baseball for the New York Yankees. Halas played 12"
X Link 2026-02-08T18:55Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements
""The presentation. Walking to home plate calmly and slowly and looking at the ball. Back then all the spikes would be cleaned and polished for the following day. So all the spikes had shoe polish on them. When my Dad walked out there looking at the ball gave it to the umpire and showed him the spot on the ball there was no reason for the umpire to doubt him. My Dad wasnt loud brash or rude; he communicated calmly and clearly and never lost his cool. Otherwise he would have run to home plate screaming and yelling with the shoe polish instead of walking casually to home plate and showing it to"
X Link 2026-02-08T19:02Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements
""Babe Ruth was not a drunk by no chance. Babe drank and I guess at times he was drunk but he was never never was he did he miss a game because of that or have a bad day because of it. Never. Never. Never. Any of these lame-brains that write and talk on the air about fat drunk Babe Ruth thats silly and ridiculous". Roommate "Schoolboy" Waite Hoyt "Babe Ruth besieged by a crowd of orphans at Hebrew Orphan Asylum each clamouring for an autographed ball from their hero. The Babe capitulated and gave a signed horse hide to each of the tots." New York 1927."
X Link 2026-02-09T11:41Z 29.2K followers, [---] engagements
""I came right off the sandlots and the next thing I new I was rubbing elbows with stars like Goose Goslin and Bobo Newsom. Being a rookie you would not believe what a damn cold shoulder I got from most of the veterans on the team. If you were a rookie you stayed in your rookie area and you did not fraternize with the older players." Buddy Lewis in 'Baseball Digest'. Buddy Lewis broke into the big leagues at age [--] was a regular by age [--] an All Star by age [--]. As long as Ive been in baseball and Ive never seen an infielder who looked so good in his first year as a big leaguer. [--] year old"
X Link 2026-02-09T11:44Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements
""When Mickey Mantle faced the cameras for last time months before his death he was a husk of a man shrunken by cancer. The stiff brim of his [----] All-Star Game cap dwarfed his brow. He looked straight into cameras and told us all 'Don't be like me". "The Last Boy" Jane Leavy Mantle circles the bases while Koufax burns"
X Link 2026-02-09T12:01Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements
""Johnny Bench befriended me my first year in the big leagues. He took me under his wing during my first All-Star Game and we've been friends ever since. He's one guy I've tried to emulate and I'll always compare myself to Johnny Bench". Gary Carter. "I'm gonna miss that smile I'm gonna miss every part of Gary Carter because of the way he was. For those who knew him no words are necessary. For those who didn't no words are adequate." Johnny Bench. Bench said that Gary Carter had always wanted to manage in the major leagues. Nobody was that smart to hire him. "Johnny Bench was the No. [--] catcher"
X Link 2026-02-09T12:03Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
""Baseball is a ballet without music. A drama without words." Ernie Harwell. "Baseball and Ballerina" Salvador Dali [----]. Ink and watercolor on paper Collection of The Dal Museum St. Petersburg Florida"
X Link 2026-02-09T18:47Z 29.2K followers, [---] engagements
""The [----] Cardinals never won a game they could afford to lose; and never lost a game that they had to win." Bob Broeg. "I wish Yankee fans wouldn't boo the guy. It just makes him mad." Mickey Mantle regarding Bob Gibson. "I remember hearing how Mickey Mantle had lost a step and was a little past his prime. But when he got me 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 [--] [----] World Series. In his final"
X Link 2026-02-09T18:54Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
"@BobPagesports @PolarGinger My Uncle and I always "played catch" Actually he always called it "play catch and fetch" because he said " You owned a wing that's as dead as a new brides biscuit.""
X Link 2026-02-09T23:28Z 29.2K followers, [--] engagements
""I know one thing Without Darrell Porter we sure wouldnt have won our second and third straight championships in the West Division." Mgr. Whitey Herzog [----]. Signed out of high school as the #4 overall pick of the Brewers in the [----] amateur draft Darrell Porter developed into one of the grittiest catchers in baseball After the [----] season the Chicago Cubs offered the Brewers $1 million in cash for Darrell Porter. Owner Bud Selig declined. There isnt enough money around to get Darrell Porter." Porter matchedMickey Cochraneas the second catcher to amass over [---] runs RBI and walks in a single"
X Link 2026-02-09T23:35Z 29.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Sandy Koufax at his peak was the greatest pitcher in history Gibson at his peak was the greatest competitor on the mound in history @Jimfrombaseball Question. I never saw Koufax and barely remember Gibson. May I ask who you thought was better They both seem to be top ten all time pitchers. @Jimfrombaseball Question. I never saw Koufax and barely remember Gibson. May I ask who you thought was better They both seem to be top ten all time pitchers"
X Link 2026-02-10T00:05Z 29.3K followers, 11K engagements
""I saw a wounded baseball fan tottering down the street. Encased in bandages and tape and bruised from head to feet. And as I called the ambulance I heard the poor guy say: I bought a seat in Wrigley Field but it was Ladies Day. A Chicago Newspaper [----]. "LADIES When your husband comes home in the evening in laughing jovial mood and tells that he was out at 'Cubs Park' and saw those same Cubs whale this or that team did you ever attempt to picture in your own mind just what scenes he has witnessed Well dont try. Come out on Friday afternoon as the guest of the Cubs and see with your own eyes"
X Link 2026-02-10T11:35Z 29.2K followers, [---] engagements
""I unconsciously decided that even if it wasn't an ideal world it should be so and painted only the ideal aspects of it. Pictures in which there are no drunken slatterns or self-centered mothers. Only foxy grandpas who played baseball with kids and boys who fished from logs and got up circuses in the back yard." Norman Rockwell. Before a doubleheader at Braves Field between the Boston Braves and the Chicago Cubs on May [--] [----] Norman Rockwell approached both teams with the intention of creating a portrait of a visiting team's dejection in contrast elation of hometown fans. A number of Cubs"
X Link 2026-02-10T11:37Z 29.3K followers, [---] engagements
""Anytime you need any help you got it. I'm a gambling fool. Otherwise I wouldn't be here." Burt Reynolds to former Coach Bobby Bowden when the Seminoles played Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl. In the early days of Coach Bobby Bowden's tenure at Florida State it was still allowed to bring boosters on a recruiting trip so Bowden pitched Burt Reynolds on a plan. There was a kid from Ohio that Bowden wanted to sign the son in a single-parent home. So the pair flew up for a visit with Bobby Bowden selling the kid on Florida State while Burt Reynolds wooed the mom. "The kid ended up going to Notre Dame"
X Link 2026-02-10T12:09Z 29.3K followers, 18.2K engagements
""Not only was I not the best catcher in the major leagues; I wasn't even the best catcher on my street." Joe Garagiola. In [----] when Yogi Berra finished third in MVP voting behind teammate Phil Rizzuto and Bostons Billy Goodman Yogi Berra may have had his best year. Despite all that hard work behind the plate only missing three games all season Yogi batted .322 with [--] home runs and [---] RBIs while striking out only TWELVE times in [---] plate appearances. Few hitters could see the ball like Yogi could. Notorious as a bad ball hitter he seemed able to make contact with pitches at will whether in"
X Link 2026-02-10T12:12Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Smoky Burgess was fat. Not baseball-fat like Micky Lolich or Early Wynn but at-fat like the mailman or your Uncle Dwight. In fact I would venture to say that Smoky Burgess was probably the fattest man ever to play professional baseball. Dressed in the white home uniform of the Pittsburgh Pirates Smokey Burgess looks a little like a walking laundry bag. "Sports Illustrated" [----]. "Smoky Burgess did not possess the physique of a Greek god nor even that of the average major leaguer. Standing in at a pudgy [--] Burgess was saddled with such unflattering descriptions as 'a walking laundry bag' and"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:50Z 29.3K followers, 13.8K engagements
""The very word jazz may owe its origins to baseball for the first documented use of word jazz meaning a kind of pep occurred in [----] L.A. Times article on baseball. Dr. John Edward Hasse Smithsonian There are only three things that America will be remembered for [----] years from now when they study this civilization: The Constitution Jazz music Baseball. These are the [--] most beautiful things this cultures ever created. Gerald Early Dizzy Gillespie with Cab Calloways Baseball team. Cab Calloway's band toured relentlessly and Calloway was one of the first bandleaders to have both baseball and"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:58Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Mr. Page the scariest Fastest ever in history. I never want to face him again. Ted Williams. Steve Dalkowski was the hardest thrower I ever saw. Catcher Cal Ripken Sr. [----]. His fastball was like nothing Id ever seen before. It really rose. If you told him to aim the ball at home plate that ball would cross the plate at the batters shoulders That was because of the tremendous backspin he could put on the ball". Pat Gillick Steve Dalkowski threw harder than anybody I ever saw he even threw his slider [--] miles per hour. One day in the outfield I said You can throw a ball through that fence cant"
X Link 2026-02-11T00:59Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
""Walter Johnson was great big sort of pitcher with hands that came clear down to his knees. Everybody in league knew he'd never come inside to a batter. Walter was a gentleman first last and always." "Smoky" Joe Wood. Walter Johnson caught the Washington Senators attention by going [--] innings straight without allowing a run for Weiser Idaho in the Southern Idaho League. "This boy throws so fast you can't see 'em and he knows where he is throwing because if he didn't there would be dead bodies all over Idaho". A MLB scout on Walter Johnson before he joined the Washington Senators. "Labor Day"
X Link 2026-02-11T11:49Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
"In late November [----] with another baseball season in the books and the pennant won maverick Milwaukee Brewers owner Bill Veeck left his office at Borchert Field and enlisted in the US Marine Corps. His right leg was crushed in the recoil of an anti-aircraft gun during the Bougainville campaign and of his twenty-two months in the service he spent eighteen in military hospitals. "What Bill Veeck did better than any baseball executive in the game's history of the game was to get fans in the seats. No one did more to draw people to games than Veeck when he was the owner of the Cleveland Indians"
X Link 2026-02-11T11:57Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
""A word of advice to you men. Many times in your Marine Corps career you are going to feel like resigning. But dont forget: One son of a bitch or four or five cannot ruin the Corps. I was told by "Chesty" Puller years ago there is only a hairlines difference between a Navy Cross and a general court-martial. The definition of flying is: Hours and hours of dull monotony sprinkled with a few moments of stark horror." Gregory "Pappy" Boyington. During their first combat tour while on the island of Vella Lavella the Black Sheeps Intelligence Officer Frank Walton wrote to the Commissioner of"
X Link 2026-02-11T12:08Z 29.3K followers, 27.9K engagements
""The highlight of my career In [----] with St. Louis I walked with the bases loaded to drive in the winning run in an inter squad game in spring training. I think my top salary was maybe in [----]. I made $17000 and [--] of that came from selling other players' equipment. Baseball hasn't forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven't lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times." Bob Uecker. In [----] the Brewers dedicated a second Bob Uecker statue in the last row of the upper deck a wink and a nod to the story line in many of those Miller"
X Link 2026-02-11T12:09Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Charles J. "Chuck" Chase was drafted in the first round of the Major League Amateur Draft 18th overall by the Minnesota Twins in [----]. Chase was immediately assigned to their rookie team in Sarasota Florida in the newly renamed Gulf Coast League. After the [----] season he was drafted by the US Army. On June [--] [----] Staff Sergeant C. J. Chase was killed by friendly fire during a firefight with North Vietnamese Army troops. He was [--] years old. In January of [----] posthumous medals and citations were given to Chucks family on his behalf. For service to his country Staff Sergeant Charles J. Chase"
X Link 2026-02-11T12:11Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Each year I do not play I get better. The first year on the banquet trail I was a former ballplayer. The second year I was great. The third year one of baseballs stars and just last year I was introduced as one of baseballs immortals. The older I get the more I realize that the worst break I had was playing. Joe Garagiola. "Joe Garagiola fought against chewing tobacco wrote two more books helped found an organization to assist former players in need and worked tirelessly to try to help Native American kids. By any measure that's a full life." Bryant Gumbel paying tribute to Joe Garagiola. "I"
X Link 2026-02-11T12:13Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
"RT @ChattLookouts: Before the Hall of Fame there were the Chattanooga Choo-Choos.🚂 From [------] the Choo-Choos were a cornerstone of Ne"
X Link 2026-02-11T17:53Z 29.3K followers, [--] engagements
"RT @sigg20: Athletes We Remember From the Past #Cardinals #MLB #nostalgia"
X Link 2026-02-11T19:10Z 29.2K followers, [--] engagements
"RT @sigg20: Old DaysLegends: Willie McCovey holds on Roberto Clemente during the [----] Pirates-Giants NLCS at Candlestick Park.#HOF #MLB #"
X Link 2026-02-11T19:11Z 29.2K followers, [--] engagements
"RT @sigg20: Legendary Athletes From the Past #Cardinals #MLB #nostalgia"
X Link 2026-02-11T19:11Z 29.2K followers, [--] engagements
""I think baseball is a great support to people who have emotional voids gaps emotional difficulties. That is to say: all of us. Those parts of us that dont function well. Those parts of us that are sad or depressednot every day. They can really use baseball. It isn't just the child in a wheelchair or the shut-in senior citizen listening to the radio that needs the game. Theres part of us part of everybody whos a baseball fan who needs the game at that level." Thomas Boswell. Enos Slaughter and Joe Collins hop out of a cab during Spring Training at 'Al Lang Field' in St. Petersburg in full"
X Link 2026-02-11T19:13Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
""Shed no tears for Buck. I couldn't attend Sarasota High School. That hurt. I couldn't attend the University of Florida. That hurt. But not going into the Hall of Fame that ain't going to hurt me that much no. Before I wouldn't even have a chance. But this time I had that chance. Just keep loving old Buck." 94-year-old Buck ONeil addressing a group that had assembled for what was scheduled to be a celebration of O'Neil's election into baseball's Hall of Fame in February [----]. Buck ONeil fell one vote short of HOF election. "Gods been good to me. They didnt think Buck was good enough to be in"
X Link 2026-02-11T19:14Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
"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. "Bye Bye Balboni". After "Bye Bye" hit [--] home runs for the [----] World Champion Kansas City Royals no team with a player who hit more than Balbonis [--] home runs won the World Series for the next sixteen years this was also known as the Curse of the Balboni"
X Link 2026-02-11T19:15Z 29.3K followers, 14.6K engagements
""All though I didn't meet him. His legend and his saga and his story is just that. Jackie Robinson we all have to tip our hat to him. Because he made the game available to guys like me. People I look up to Again Hank Aaron man you challenged the status quo and the records of the game. Monumental feats in an era where people didn't like that. These days baseball is different. You come to Spring Training you get your legs ready you arms loose your agents ready your lawyers lined up. I never had to cheat I get them with what I got." Dave Winfield. "If I were sitting down with George Steinbrenner"
X Link 2026-02-11T19:17Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
""Nobody was more loyal generous courageous more respected than Ted Williams. He sacrificed his life and career for his country. But he became what he always wanted to be the greatest hitter ever." Yogi Berra on Ted Williams. "For my money Ted Williams is the greatest hitter of all-time. I'd take him over Babe Ruth I'd take him over Ty Cobb. I'd take him over Cobb because of the combination of power and average. I'd take him over Ruth because with Ruth you can only speculate about what he would have done in the modern era. Ted Williams hit .388 at the age of [--] in [----]. Ted was what few of us"
X Link 2026-02-11T19:18Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
""The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself. Training counts. You cant win any game unless you are ready to win" Connie Mack. With the Three Stooges Anaheim Spring Training [----]. "Calling Dr. Howard Dr. Fine Dr Howard""
X Link 2026-02-11T19:20Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Very well done Thank you @Jimfrombaseball @sigg20 Good guy. Always showed up for the class reunions on the Hill in St Louis. https://t.co/AFiNQM2VHb @Jimfrombaseball @sigg20 Good guy. Always showed up for the class reunions on the Hill in St Louis. https://t.co/AFiNQM2VHb"
X Link 2026-02-11T23:46Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Good work @acodemonkey @Jimfrombaseball @RoyalTXGirl @USMC Top USMC ace in PTO but not top US ace in PTO Major Richard Bong USAAF P-38 jockey of 9FS 49FG [--] kills to this day the top scoring US ace of all time all theaters https://t.co/47ByokRHaI @acodemonkey @Jimfrombaseball @RoyalTXGirl @USMC Top USMC ace in PTO but not top US ace in PTO Major Richard Bong USAAF P-38 jockey of 9FS 49FG [--] kills to this day the top scoring US ace of all time all theaters https://t.co/47ByokRHaI"
X Link 2026-02-11T23:50Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
"RT @Steigerworld: The Gunner called him Shake Rattle & Roll"
X Link 2026-02-12T00:06Z 29.2K followers, [--] engagements
"RT @JamesMDeMarco: @Jimfrombaseball Jim I was at Yankee spring training [--] saw Joe Altobelli and yelled out Hey Joe Rochester NY His"
X Link 2026-02-12T00:11Z 29.3K followers, [--] engagements
"Awesome Runs in the family I think Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi Trucks @Jimfrombaseball Virgil Trucks put more effort into an autograph than anyone else. He used [--] different pens and [--] different stamps to sign a single autograph https://t.co/wlycWaj5lG @Jimfrombaseball Virgil Trucks put more effort into an autograph than anyone else. He used [--] different pens and [--] different stamps to sign a single autograph https://t.co/wlycWaj5lG"
X Link 2026-02-12T00:25Z 29.3K followers, [----] 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. "Radio Announcing I Have Did" Title of a lecture Dizzy Dean gave at Southern Methodist University sometime after the St. Louis Board of"
X Link 2026-02-12T11:42Z 29.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Im going back in. We are in trouble and there is only one thing left to do return to service. I have not been called back I am going back of my own accord. Hank Greenberg Was the first major league baseball drafted and called-up for WWII service. Deployed to China in [----] Hank Greenberg was returned back stateside in [----] and discharged in [----]. In total Hank Greenberg's military career lasted about [--] months at the height of his baseball career. "The first day that Hank Greenberg was in the army he and the other recruits were lined up and the Sergeant immediately began spouting some"
X Link 2026-02-12T11:58Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
""Ted Williams No he doesn't come in. He's too damn cheap. He'd go all over town that sonofabitch and he'd pay by cheque hoping they wouldn't cash the check and they'd put it on the wall." Restaurateurs in Islamorada and the Florida Keys. Legend has it that Sam Snead and Ted Williams once argued over which sport was harder. Ted Williams said it was baseball because you have to hit a moving target but Sam Snead supposedly won the debate: Ted you dont have to go up in the stands and play your foul balls. I do. "Watch Williams when he bats. Hes up there to knock that ball as hard as he can and he"
X Link 2026-02-12T12:02Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
""Let me tell you about Roger Maris. I gave him one point for speed. I do this because he can run fast. I give him another point because he can slide fast. Then I give him a point because he can bunt. I also give him a point because he can field very good around the fences even on top of the fences. Next I gave him a point because he can throw. A right fielder has to be a thrower or he's not a right fielder. So I add up my points and I've got five for him before I even come to his hitting. I would say this is a good man." Casey Stengel. In my HOF"
X Link 2026-02-12T12:05Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
""When I got out into the field I noticed that the wind was blowing in big-time. I told my friend Stan Musial that no one would hit a home run into the left field stands that afternoon because the wind was just howling in. Ill hit one out there he said without hesitation. If you do it Stan I will kiss your rear end when you cross home I said because I knew it was impossible. Well he hit a shot in the sixth inning of that game we called them blue darters back then and it carried into the lower deck in left field. When Musial crossed the plate he smiled and yelled Do you want to kiss it now or"
X Link 2026-02-12T12:07Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
""If you ask me he'll be out of the league by June. I don't think he can hit .240." Jimmy Dykes Mgr. of the Baltimore Orioles during spring training [----] about a young highly touted Chicago Cubs infielder named Ernie Banks. "Ernie Banks wasnt a griper. Never complained about a strike or an out or a call. Some guys would turn their heads after a pitch and look at you like you were nuts. Not Ernie. It was always Isnt this a great day to be alive and playing baseball Umpire Doug Harvey on Ernie Banks In his 19-year career with the Cubs Ernie Banks was never ejected from a game. I learned how to"
X Link 2026-02-02T11:50Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
"The first EVER TV commercial was aired on July [--] [----] on station WNBT before a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and Philadelphia Phillies. "America Runs on Bulova Time." It was for "Bulava". It cost about $9 in airtime charges to run the commercial. The first time the wordf*** was ever heard on television was during the broadcasts of Brooklyn Dodgers games on CBS [----]. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018292407251460526 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018292407251460526"
X Link 2026-02-02T11:56Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
"During the [----] MLB playoffs between the Giants and the Pirates a television reporter asked Gaylord Perry's five-year-old daughter Allison if her father threw the greaseball. "It's a hard slider" Alison responded"
X Link 2026-02-05T11:50Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
""The Robinson experience developed as epic and now not only a National team the Dodgers were a National issue. Everywhere in New England drawing rooms on porches in the South in California which had no major league teams and in New York City which had three men and women talked about the Jackie Robinson Dodgers and as they talked the confronted themselves and American racism. One did not go to Ebbets field for sociology. Exciting baseball was the attraction." Roger Kahn. "Some day I'm going to have to stand before God and if He asks me why I didn't let that Jackie Robinson fellow play ball I"
X Link 2026-02-09T11:37Z 29.3K followers, [---] engagements
"According to Buck O'Neill and Monte Irvin players in the Negro Leagues were given the equivalent of a dollar a day. When Babe Ruth would barnstorm with them he'd bring in $1500 a game to be distributed to the teams. Ruth was a longtime advocate of integrating baseball"
X Link 2024-06-25T16:28Z 29.3K followers, 93.2K engagements
"In [----] Waite Hoyt famously disappeared from broadcasting Cincinnati Reds games for a few days while on a terrible drunken bender. Hoyt was reported missing by his wife and it was later revealed that he had gone on a several-day drinking binge and had checked himself into a New York hospital for alcoholism. His wife at the time cited Hoyts disappearance to a "case of amnesia". This prompted Hoyts old friend and teammate Babe Ruth to send him a telegram: "Read about your case of amnesia. Must be a new brand." A longtime member of Alcoholics Anonymous during a [----] "Old-Timers' Day Game" Waite"
X Link 2026-01-29T11:52Z 29.3K followers, 16.7K engagements
""One quick story involving me. One year I actually wore a Dodger uniform and sat quietly in the Dodger dugout. They were playing the Chicago Cubs and Don Zimmer was the Cubs manager. I had asked for permission to do it and didnt think anyone except some of the Dodgers players knew I was even in the dugout because I crept in right after the anthem. I sat there with my cap pulled down over my brow arms folded at my chest and I wasnt going to make a move. At the end of half an inning the late John Vuckovich who was the first base coach for the Cubs ran by the Dodgers dugout and hollered Vinny"
X Link 2026-01-30T12:31Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Story by Whitey Ford. "We were out on the field at Yankee Stadium for about an hour-long ceremony where they were giving a summary of the players. There were a lot of players and it went on for a very long long time. Anyway on the scoreboard there was a list of guys who had passed away over the last year. I was standing next to Yogi Berra. Yogi looked up at it and then turned to me and said: Boy. I hope I never see my name up there. Another guy standing next to me asked Did I just hear him say that I said Yep.'" https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018294551245394242"
X Link 2026-02-02T12:04Z 29.3K followers, 12.3K engagements
""83-year-old Lawrence Peter Yogi Berra was introduced to a thunderous ovation as he walked slowly to his familiar spot behind home plate." Yogi Berra stands in his classic Yankees uniform in front of a packed house at the final game held at old Yankee Stadium"
X Link 2026-02-03T12:04Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
""Mel Farr your Superstar Dealer come in for a Farr better deal." Mel Farr Superstar "Mel Farr Ford" Oak Park Michigan. Mel Farr completed his degree at the University of Detroit while still in the National Football League. He worked during the off-season for the Ford Motor Company in its management program. In [----] "Mel Farr Ford" opened at [----] Greenfield Road in Oak Park Michigan. Targeting the inner-city population with its high credit risk but its need for automobiles and ready financing Farr employed a variety of creative marketing and management approaches. Purchasing additional"
X Link 2026-02-04T11:51Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
""There is actually a good argument Tom Seaver should be regarded as the greatest pitcher of all time. Tom Seaver pitched for eight losing teams several of them really terrible four other teams which had losing records except when Tom Seaver was on the mound". Bill James. "You put a bunch of guys together of varying abilities and you know who the great ones are. When you played behind Tom Seaver you were playing behind greatness. And you saw it almost every time. Ron Swoboda. "But Tom Seaver does everything well. He's the kind of man you'd want your kids to grow up to be like. Tom's a studious"
X Link 2026-02-04T19:50Z 29.3K followers, 28.9K 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 [----] World Series never happened. Mickey Lolich. "Mickey Lolich was far from a conventional athlete. Labelled as too heavy too slow and too"
X Link 2026-02-04T20:01Z 29.3K followers, 17K engagements
"Lou Gehrig's Farewell Speech Yankee Stadium July [--] [----]. "Fans for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. I have been in ballparks for seventeen years and I have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans. Look at these grand men. Which of you wouldn't consider it the highlight of his career just to associate with them for even one day Sure I'm lucky. Who wouldn't have considered it an honor to have known Jacob Ruppert Also the builder of baseball's greatest empire Ed"
X Link 2026-02-05T11:37Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
""Ray Nitschke had great study habits and analyzed as much film as Bart Starr. Nitschke used to drive Vince Lombardi crazy during practice because he was able to call out all the offensive plays before the snap. He would run around screaming Watch out for the pass; watch out for the draw Vince would scream at him to shut up. Ray would just grin and after a play or two Lombardi would start screaming again. The most amazing thing about Nitschke is that he played his entire career on one leg. Ray Nitschkes left leg had been injured so much in High School and in College that the muscles had"
X Link 2026-02-08T12:52Z 29.3K followers, 16.7K engagements
""Thurman Munson and I came to be to be very close friends during my first season with the Yankees in [----]. I had just come over from the Pittsburgh Pirates in [----] and was having a bit of a rough time adjusting to the added pressure of playing in the Yankee pinstripes. Thurman helped me through those trying times. When I was trying too hard he would always settle me down by providing humor on the field. Thurman had an uncanny ability unlike any teammates that I have played with to share a laugh or humorous moment on the field during pressure moments. Even in World Series play he always had a"
X Link 2026-02-08T18:56Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
""We were kidding around at the All-Star Game putting on a show. Joe Morgan hit a couple into the seats Steve Garvey hit a couple into the bullpen. Then Greg Luzinski stepped up and made it look like he was driving golf balls. Everything he hit went out of sight. Just awesome." Johnny Bench. "Luzinski was a doorway and a half. They could hold the Winter Olympics on his shoulders balance Rhode Island on his knees and plug up leaky dams with his feet." Rich Wescott. "Theyre going to have to start a separate record book: Most home run roof. Ron Kittle. During the [----] season as a designated"
X Link 2026-02-09T11:59Z 29.3K followers, 30.1K engagements
""The [----] 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 [----] All-Star Game on TV with her grandfather. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020831235614863592"
X Link 2026-02-09T12:04Z 29.3K followers, 19.6K engagements
""Joe DiMaggio had good reason for being suspicious of the press. In his first two seasons as a Yankee he had been nothing less than brilliant leading New York back to the pennant after a hiatus of three years. In his second season he hit .346 and [--] home runs and knocked in [---] runs. He had been paid only $8000 for his first year and for his second $15000 plus of course his World Series checks which the Yankee's management viewed as part of his salary. For his third year he decided to ask for $40000. The Yankees offered him $25000. Ed Barrow the general manager told him that $40000 was more"
X Link 2026-02-10T11:56Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
""I was blocked for playing with the Dodgers by Gil Hodges for seven yearstwo in single-A two in double-A and three in triple-A. They had so many players that I never got a chance. They kept us around for a long time going up and down up and down but they never gave me much of a shot. They never changed that infield for seven years. Jim Gentile The Orioles paid $50000 and two players for Jim Gentile but he was only sent to Baltimore on a trial basis for [--] days. If they didnt like me after thirty days they could send me back and get back half their money." Mickey Mantle and Jim Gentile. Mantle"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:52Z 29.3K followers, 12K engagements
""There were only four high schools in the state of Florida which a black kid could attend. So it was mostly just elementary education this was by design because this was all they though a black kid needed. So after I finished eighth grade I had to work. I worked in that celery farm for three seasons. One day in the third year toward the end of the harvest the foreman blew the whistle for lunch. I had been doing nothing but carrying boxes for weeks and it was hotter than usual and so humid it felt like we were working in a steam bath. There was this big stack of boxes on the ground. On one"
X Link 2026-02-12T11:46Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
""On one road trip into Cincinnati's Crosley Field Jackie Robinson received a particularly scary death threat. There was a pall over the visitor's locker room as the Dodgers prepared for the game. Undeterred by the silence the happy-go-lucky Gene Hermanski spoke up with a solution for the man he admired so much. "Gene suddenly said 'I've got it' Everyone looked and they said 'What' Gene said 'We'll all wear number [--] and they'll never know which one is Jackie Robinson'" It was Gene Hermanski who suggested that all of his Brooklyn Dodgers teammates wear the number #42 jersey to confuse"
X Link 2026-02-12T19:09Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
""Hitting in its simplest form is seeing the ball adjusting to the location and speed and hitting the ball. That sounds simple but unless you have set your body in a proper position to maximize its strengths you will fail time after time. As with any motor skills movement the act of hitting a baseball needs to be consciously learned then subconsciously performed. This assures spontaneous reaction." Charley Lau "Lau's Laws on Hitting: The Art of Hitting .400 for the Next Generation." @Jimfrombaseball My favorite card of Mr. Lau. Charley Finley [----] uniforms of the KC Athletics."
X Link 2026-02-12T23:46Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
""Babe Ruth went to his position in the outfield and found an alligator already there. 'I aint going out there anymore' Ruth reported to Huggins when he returned to the bench. "Theres alligators out there." 'The St. Petersburg Evening Independent' [----]. @BSmile In Florida spring training were there really alligators in the outfield @SteveSm41425283 @BrigadierBurma @Jimfrombaseball @BSmile In Florida spring training were there really alligators in the outfield @SteveSm41425283 @BrigadierBurma @Jimfrombaseball"
X Link 2026-02-13T00:40Z 29.3K followers, [----] 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. [--] 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 2025-04-18T12:16Z 29.3K followers, 92K engagements
"Ted Williams one of the greatest natural hitters of all time was retired and giving some tips to the rookies at the Red Sox spring training camp. One of them asked how to tell apart a curveball from a slider when they were coming in. Williams replied "Oh That's easy. If it's a curveball the red spot you see on the ball will be rotating clockwise - if it's a changeup counterclockwise." They all nodded and thanked him for the tip. One of the rookies turned to the others and said whispered "Now who the f*** can even see a red spot on a ball coming at you at [--] mph" Then Ted Williams went on to"
X Link 2025-08-07T11:21Z 29.3K followers, 1.9M engagements
""For the benefit of you younger fellows we have a lot of rules on this club. Midnight curfew stay out of the bar at the hotel where we're staying wear a shirt and sweater to breakfast and a coat and tie to dinner. Think you can remember all that" Baltimore Orioles Mgr. Hank Bauer [----]. Hank Bauer had an informal set of rules to play baseball. He believed in no cute stuff did not like tricks of any sort and wanted his players to just play straightforward baseball. Here are some additional items he said about various positions: Pitchers: "When I come out to that mound don't give me a lot of"
X Link 2026-01-29T11:57Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
""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 those contests were played in Philadelphia while the other two were contested in Buffalo. Babe Ruth then sailed to Cuba where he joined John McGraws Giants to play nine more contests versus a combination of Latino and Negro ballplayers. Again the message was clear: "If the sports most transcendent figure played without reservation against Black ballplayers why shouldnt everyone else""
X Link 2026-02-07T11:53Z 29.3K followers, 34.9K engagements
""George Washington was apparently seen throwing silver dollars across the Rappahannock River which in [----] was said to measure [---] feet in width and even wider in Washingtons day. The founding fathers reputed feat was likely not possible but Walter Johnson was designated to pitch a silver dollar from one riverbank to the other to see if it could be done at all. A local newspaper called that bet and put up $50 of its own. A reward was issued for the return of the coin should Johnson connect with the other side. Lou Gehrig tossed a coin across New Yorks Harlem River to prove it could be done."
X Link 2026-02-08T11:46Z 29.3K followers, 185.9K engagements
"Ted Lyndsay and Doug Harvey enrolled every player in the league save for Torontos Ted Kennedy to their union. The NHLs front offices had no idea the movement had taken place until the announcement. Both paid with their careers Detroit goaltender Terry Sawchuk follows his captain Ted Lindsay for a meet and greet with the fans Legend NO ONE I respected more than Ted Lindsay What a leader A great player AND feared fighter at only 5-8. I covered Ted in Detroit. On a bookshelf in front of me is a whiskey bottle "Bottled Expressly for BOB PAGE" He had 'em made & sent to key media guys. @KeithGave"
X Link 2026-02-08T21:48Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
""I always favour a heavy bat [--] oz. because when you connect with the ball with every ounce of strength in your frame the weight of the bat is going to help the ball to travel. Thats my theory anyway and it seems to work. Ken Williams "It's hard to understand why Ken Williams isn't enshrined in Cooperstown. Williams played with the Reds St. Louis Browns and Boston Red Sox from [----] to [----]. One of baseball's finest hitters Ken Williams 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"
X Link 2026-02-12T11:49Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
""Johnny Bench had tremendous durability never got uptight and had a great sense of humor. At an All-Star game I was on the mound and Frank Howard came to bat all six foot seven inches and [---] lbs. of him. Frank was a terrifying sight at the plate hitting wicked line drives down the third base line. As I stood on the mound to face him I noticed my third baseman Tony Perez had cautiously backed up into short left field. So had the shortstop. I thought to myself 'What am I supposed to do standing just [--] feet away I can't move back into a safe area' I knew I'd have to try and throw him fastballs"
X Link 2026-02-12T12:10Z 29.3K followers, 35.9K engagements
""I was pitching against Roberto Clemente and Wes Westrum came out and said He cant hit the fastball inside off the plate. I threw a fastball about a foot inside and he hit it. It was still going up as it went over the center field fence. Darrell Sutherland. "People say 'Clemente didnt hit [---] HR and he didnt do this or that.' Again if you hear players who played against him you realize kind of respect they have for him. Willie Mays always said that for him Clemente was the greatest all-around player he played against." Steve DiMeglio. "Even after his death the spirit of Roberto Clemente"
X Link 2026-02-13T11:48Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
"The greatest thing I ever saw was Roger Maris breaking Babe Ruth's record. Mickey Mantle"
X Link 2026-02-13T12:08Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Mr. Pettibon' art and craft are without peer or equal We're blessed to have this giant occasionally participate here with us "Pettibon's approach is also reminiscent of the directness of children's art." The New Yorker. "Raymond Pettibon has cited William Blake Edward Hopper Francisco Goya as influences. Although most closely associated with drawings in India ink on paper also an accomplished collagist a facility which is echoed in his wide-ranging erudition: blending text and figuration." Art by Raymond Pettibon. @charliejames a few friends of ours in that show @Zaksabbath degenerate art"
X Link 2026-02-14T02:04Z 29.3K followers, [----] 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 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1940381880043376788 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1940381880043376788"
X Link 2025-07-02T12:07Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
""DiMaggio had size power and speed. McCarthy his longtime manager liked to say that DiMaggio might have stolen [--] bases a season if he had given him the green light. Stengel his new manager was equally impressed and when DiMaggio was on base he would point to him as an example of the perfect base runner. "Look at him" Stengel would say as DiMaggio ran out a base hit "he's always watching the ball. He isn't watching second base. He isn't watching third base. He knows they haven't been moved. He isn't watching the ground because he knows they haven't built a canal or a swimming pool since he"
X Link 2026-02-12T12:00Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
""Yogi Berra was the only one who played every day batted cleanup did the job defensively and never had a bad season. Roy Campanella was as good as Berra was in his best seasons maybe better and so was Johnny Bench and maybe Mickey Cochrane too. Put all three together and they had about as many great seasons combined as Yogi did by himself." Bill James. "After visiting the Louvre and being asked whether he liked the paintings there Berra said "Yeah if you like paintings." Another time after attending a performance of Tosca in Milan Yogi said "It was pretty good. Even the music was nice." These"
X Link 2026-02-12T12:19Z 29.3K followers, 13.7K engagements
"There's nothing wrong with pitch counts. But when its spit out by a computer the computer does not look at an individual's mechanics. And you cant look at his genes. It should come from the individual and the pitching coach and the manager. My pitch count as a general rule was [---]. And I knew how many pitches I had when I went to the mound for the last three innings. I'm a huge advocate of pitching. You have to have good pitching as the solid core the foundation. It keeps you in every game." Tom Seaver with Satchel Paige"
X Link 2026-02-12T19:32Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
"@bill_dowhen Hallelujah"
X Link 2026-02-14T00:42Z 29.3K followers, [---] engagements
""Baseball isnt statistics; its Joe DiMaggio rounding second." Herb Caen San Francisco Chronicle. "I remember Joe DiMaggio's last at-bat in the World Series in 1951; we knew it was going to be his last at-bat. He hit a ball a double to right-centerfield and pulled up into second base in that elegant way he did. And I think there were tears in my eyes I was there that day. And I thought 'That's the last time I'll see him' but he was complete to the end." Roger Angell. "There was never a guy like DiMaggio in baseball. Everybody wanted to meet Joe to touch him to be around him. Joe was a hero a"
X Link 2026-02-09T11:46Z 29.3K followers, 11.2K engagements
"A very angry Mickey Mantle points and exchanges words with Jim Bunning after Bunning started throwing at Mantles legs. Tiger Stadium [----]. Mickey could also be feeling the pressure of the historic home run race for the record books him and teammate Roger Maris were both involved in. At the time Mantle was stuck on [--] home runs for a week now while Maris had [--]. Jim Bunning struck out Mantle [--] times in [--] at bats. Bunning also held Willie Mays to .213 average allowed Hank Aaron only one home run and laid waste to such luminaries as Harmon Killebrew (.191) Eddie Mathews (.122) Brooks Robinson"
X Link 2026-02-12T12:15Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
""Hoyt Wilhelm's pitching. And Hoyt Wilhelm's all time for me. I'd get up against Hoyt Wilhelm and his first knuckleball you could see it good but it was moving. The second one it's moving more and you'd foul it off and you'd say "Geez that's a good knuckleball.' And now he throws you the three-strike knuckleball. It's all over the place and you're lucky if you don't get hit with it because you don't know where the hell it's going. You could swing at it AND GET HIT BY IT. I was always looking for Wilhelm's knuckleball because geez you were going to get it. I never will forget this one day It"
X Link 2026-02-12T19:01Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
""I've had more numbers on my back than a bingo board." "Well there are three things that the average man thinks he can do better than anybody else. Build a fire run a hotel and manage a baseball team." "You mix two jiggers of Scotch to one jigger of Metrecal. So far I've lost five pounds and my driver's license." "Tommy Lasorda's curve had as much hang time as a Ray Guy punt." Once said he wouldnt eat snails because: I prefer fast food. Explaining why he didnt participate in a pregame cow milking contest when he managed in the minor leagues: I didnt want to get emotionally attached to the"
X Link 2026-02-13T00:32Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
""The biggest difference between baseball and life is time. Time is not important in baseball it used to be many years ago but today they're gonna start and they're gonna play until they get final score. As you and I know there's time in life. It's the most precious thing we have. You know friends so many people have wished me congratulations on a 67-year career in baseball and theyve wished me a wonderful retirement with my family. And now all I can do is tell you what I wish for you. 'May God give you for every storm a rainbow For every tear a smile For every care a promise And a blessing in"
X Link 2026-02-13T11:58Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
""When we got Ted Kluszewski we all thought it was very very good thing. Ted gave us a strong left-handed hitter with a good reputation. We never thought he was past his prime but that he would help us." Billy Pierce. "They got pretty upset but it was either that or change my swing and I wasnt about to change my swing." When Ted Kluszewski joined the Reds he cut off the sleeves of his uniform much to the chagrin of Reds front office. Kluszewski has more career walks (492) then career strikeouts (365). "How hard is hitting You ever walk into a pitch-black room full of furniture that youve never"
X Link 2026-02-13T12:12Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Wow Please if you can share some pictures with us. Thanks so much @Jimfrombaseball My Down Syndrome son was selected to be an honorary bat boy for a 1/2 inning in [----] during Think Blue week. We were treated like royalty by the Dodgers under Peter O'Malley. The best thing is that Vin Scully the great Vin Scully mentioned my son's name. Never forget that. @Jimfrombaseball My Down Syndrome son was selected to be an honorary bat boy for a 1/2 inning in [----] during Think Blue week. We were treated like royalty by the Dodgers under Peter O'Malley. The best thing is that Vin Scully the great Vin"
X Link 2026-02-14T00:56Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
""So Harvey Kuenn is batting for Bob Hendley. The time on the scoreboard is 9:44. The date September the ninth [----] and Sandy Koufax working on veteran Harvey Kuenn. Sandy into his windup and the pitch a fastball for a strike. He has struck out by the way five consecutive batters and thats gone unnoticed. Sandy ready and the strike one pitch: Very high and he lost his hat. He really forced that one. Thats only the second time tonight where I have had the feeling that Sandy threw instead of pitched trying to get that little extra and that time he tried so hard his hat fell off he took an"
X Link 2026-02-14T12:17Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
""If I had to choose one great moment in my life I'd have to say that one in Milwaukee was it." Hank Aaron. Mickey Mantle just misses this drive by Hank Aaron that goes for a triple Game [--] [----] World Series. Hank Aaron in 1957: .322/.378/.600 .410 wOBA .278 ISO [--] HRs [---] RBI and [---] wRC+ and MVP. The Braves won the series 4-3 behind World Series MVP Lou Burdettes three complete game victories amid ongoing suspicions Burdette was throwing a doctored ball "There should be three pitching statistics for Burdette: Wins Losses and Relative Humidit." Red Smith. "I exploit the greed of all hitters."
X Link 2026-02-14T12:21Z 29.3K followers, [---] engagements
""We picked probably the coldest place in the city to put a ballpark" Willie Mays. "Architect John Bolles the man who has blueprinted the new Giant Stadium at Candlestick Point says the gaily colored park will have drive-in ticket windows a fountain out front that will really be something and a year-round exclusive clubhouse for [---] that will have bars and restaurants." "San Francisco Chronicle" [----]. In [----] Horace Stoneham owner of baseball's New York Giants was in San Francisco looking for a new home for his team. Some local boosters took him to the spot on the shore of San Francisco Bay"
X Link 2026-02-14T12:26Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
""Look at Stengel. When he was with the Yankees loaded with material he was a winner. When he moved over to the Mets he finished last. They voted Casey the greatest living manager. That's a lot of bullshit. A joke. The only thing a manager has to do is relate to the players. Who did Casey ever relate to Nobody but himself. A baseball manager must be alert on every play but at [--] or so youre not too alert." Jackie Robinson. "Oh yes THAT Robason. Well I seen Mr. Paige I seen Mr. Rogan and I seen Mr. Josh Gibson did you ever see that center field wall in Pittsburgh Well Mr. Gibson hit"
X Link 2026-02-14T12:35Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Story by Whitey Ford. "The White Sox came into Yankee Stadium and I was pitching against them. I took my [--] warm up pitches and they played the National Anthem. Up comes Louie Aparicio. First pitch I throw to him he bunts down third beats it out. One pitch man on first. Nellie Foxgets up. First pitch double down the left field line. Two pitches second and third. Minnie Minoso I threw him a really good curveball but it hit him in the kneecap. So he walks down to first. Now Ive thrown three pitches. Bases are loaded and up comes Ted Kluszewski First pitch high fastball off the right-centerfield"
X Link 2026-02-14T12:42Z 29.3K followers, 58.7K engagements
""Once in a scoreless tie game with the Brooklyn Dodgers in [----] Stan Musial came to the plate with runners on first and second and nobody out. Leading the National League in hitting Stan Musial was asked to lay down a sacrifice bunt in order to advance the runners to second and third base. Great hitters are not normally ever called upon to perform such a humble task. They would always expect to hit away in that situation. But Stan Musial laid down a perfect sacrifice bunt and accordingly the next batter drove those two runners home. "Stan Musial once joined his High School basketball"
X Link 2026-02-14T19:06Z 29.3K followers, 27.5K engagements
""Joe DiMaggio's grace came to represent more than athletic skill in those years. To the men who wrote about the game it was a talisman a touchstone a symbol of the limitless potential of the human individual. That an Italian immigrant a fisherman's son could catch fly balls the way Keats wrote poetry or Beethoven wrote sonatas was more than just a popular marvel. It was proof positive that democracy was real. On the baseball diamond if nowhere else America was truly a classless society. DiMaggio's grace embodied the democracy of our dreams. "Summer of '49." David Halberstam. "Joe DiMaggio was"
X Link 2026-02-14T19:13Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
""Heroes don't need to talk about what they did" "Shoeless Joe" W. P. Kinsella. In [----] John Wooden began to teach English coach basketball and baseball at Dayton High School. Wooden formulated the principles of his seminal Pyramid of Success model aiming to inspire students and teams to derive most from their potential. The "Pyramid of Success" as based on his fathers advice. John Wooden. Coaching record 218-42. "I dont know whod be run out of town first you or me." John Wooden. In the mid-1960's the Pittsburgh Pirates looking to replace infirm manager Danny Murtaugh very nearly hired John"
X Link 2026-02-14T19:21Z 29.3K followers, [----] engagements
""I had dinner with Mickey Mantle one night. It was in January in New York and it was really cold. We were walking back to the Regency Hotel where we both were staying and I had noticed that Mickey had asked for a doggie bag for his dinner in the restaurant--which was sort of strange. Anyway he asks me to take a walk with him. Now this wasn't the kind of night where you wanted to take a stroll but I went along over to Madison Avenue where he knew this homeless guy who was in a cardboard box. Mickey Mantle knocks on the cardboard and suddenly this guy pops up his head. He looks frightened--and"
X Link 2026-02-15T12:23Z 29.3K followers, [--] engagements
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