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# ![@Jimfrombaseball Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::731624499112771585.png) @Jimfrombaseball Jim Koenigsberger

Jim Koenigsberger posts on X about world series, gibson, pittsburgh pirates, bob the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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""Spike Honus Wagner It would have taken quite a foolhardy man. That god damned Dutchman Honus Wagner is the only man in the game I can't scare. He maybe the greatest star ever to take the diamond." Ty Cobb "I'm coming down on the next pitch Krauthead." Ty Cobb at 1st shouted to shortstop Honus Wagner in the 1909 World Series. Cobb did come down and Wagner tagged him in the mouth cutting his lip and knocking out two of Cobbs teeth. President Eisenhower wrote Wagner on his 80th birthday You are truly one of baseballs immortal heroes. "Honus Wagner was the greatest athlete in baseball."  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1978789392916361241) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-16T11:45Z 27.2K followers, 10.2K engagements


""I'll never forget September X 1950. I got a letter threatening me Hank Bauer Yogi Berra and Johnny Mize. It said if I showed up in uniform against the Red Sox I'd be shot. I turned the letter over to the FBI and told my Mgr. Casey Stengel about it. You know what Casey did He gave me a different uniform and gave mine to Billy Martin. Casey thought it'd be better if Billy got shot" Phil Rizzuto"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1978791318420664333) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-16T11:53Z 27.2K followers, 27K engagements


""I never set my sights low. I've always believed most people are ruined by the limitations they put on themselves. I was never afraid to take that step to see what I was capable of doing. Does luck play a role in success particularly in a creative field Sure it does. But if you don't have the balls to give it a shot you're destined to fail. I have a lot of diehard fans. Ace Frehley fans and Kiss fans are the greatest fans in the world." Ace Frehley Go easy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1978986939693842886) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-17T00:50Z 27.2K followers, 19.2K engagements


""Mickey Mantle walked over and peered into another glass-enclosed case labeled "The XXX Homer Club". Mantle looked back at his own likeness beside those of Hank Aaron Babe Ruth Willie Mays (660) Frank Robinson (586) Harmon Killebrew (573) Jimmy Foxx (534) Ted Williams and Willie McCovey (521). Ernie Banks and Eddie Mathews (512) and Mel Ott (511). Mantle kept staring at Williams' picture. "Ted Williams Mantle said softly My No. X idol. A female visitor standing nearby heard him. Ted Williams she said. Wasn't he a singer Mantle was flabbergasted. A singer Ted Wiliams My God lady. You must be"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1979153663244357715) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-17T11:52Z 27.2K followers, 18.4K engagements


""Somewhat typical for Ted Williams was his decision to give away the six tickets he was allotted for each of the three World Series games at Fenway Park. Williams had his wife go to Kenmore Square before the games and give the tickets to the first six GIs she saw. He felt no need to tell the press about the token of appreciation for the fans." "The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams" Ben Bradlee Jr"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1979889301874708938) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-19T12:36Z 27.2K followers, 5367 engagements


""For me it was that you can dream big. I was born and reared on a farm in western Minnesota and dreamed of winning the World Series as a kid. So to see that come true it's almost overwhelming. If I would have told somebody that I was going to win the World Series in New York City when I was a kid they probably would have laughed. I did it though proving that anything is possible if you set your mind to it and work hard. It doesn't matter where you come from or how you are raised. Anything is possible in this country. Anything." Jerry Koosman 1969 "Jerry Koosman had brains heart and guts it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1979890074964652255) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-19T12:39Z 27.2K followers, 3613 engagements


""Harry Caray would tell the story of a beaten down Stan Musial going hitless in a Sunday doubleheader. The heat was unbearable that day hell could not be much hotter than a St. Louis summer day and after the game Musial walked gingerly to his car. He looked beaten down. He looked beat up. Musial never seemed to think of baseball as a job but a daytime doubleheader in St. Louis might have made him think twice about it. 'Watch this' Caray said to a friend as they watched the scene and sure enough when Musial got to the car there were a hundred kids waiting for him an autograph. Stan leaned"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1979994312684216528) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-19T19:33Z 27.2K followers, 66.7K engagements


""I didn't even know how to spell Sandy Koufax's name. I thought it was Kovacs. The day I phoned him Sandy Koufax told me had just come back from the Pittsburgh Pirates tryout so I told him to rest your arm for few days and then come down to Ebbets Field." The 18-year-old lefthander began to throw at an Ebbets Field tryout. In an otherwise empty ballpark on a cloudy drizzly late summer afternoon Sandy Koufax the son of a Brooklyn attorney fired a fastball that appeared to be headed into the dirt in front of the plate. "Then it rose for a kneehigh strike. As soon as I saw that fastball the hair"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1974555763180814786) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-04T19:22Z 27.2K followers, 7009 engagements


""Satchel Paige had a very very good fastball. but the first time I faced Satchel he threw me a little breaking ball just to see what I could do and I hit it off the top of the fence. I got a double. When I got to second Satchel told the third baseman 'Let me know when that little boy comes back up.' Three innings later I go to kneel down in the on-deck circle and I hear the third baseman say 'There he is'. Satch looked at the third baseman and then he looked at me. I walk halfway to home plate and he says 'Little boy.' I say 'Yes sir' because Satch was much older than I am so I was trying to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1978792391822782563) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-16T11:57Z 27.2K followers, 175.4K engagements


""Mickey Mantles at shortstop taking ground balls throwing em by the first baseman and outta the dugout comes Casey Stengel. Caseys got a fungo bat in his hand and he runs right at Mantle. He starts waving this bat at him he shoos Mantle out into the outfield and turns around and loudly announces to all the coaches and everybody thats assembled that this guy is gonna be a center fielder. Im gonna teach him how to play center field myself and I dont wanna see him at shortstop again'". Hank Workman Casey Stengel took Mantle aside in the dugout for a fatherly chat: "Kid you wanna play in the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1979884637322166562) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-19T12:17Z 27.2K followers, 4145 engagements


""Nobody has won XX games since McLain. No other pitcher has drunk as many Pepsi-Colas broken as many team rules played the organ as famously as McLain did. And there has never been another World Series game in which both starting pitchers had won "Cy Young" and MVP awards". Bob Gibson With Denny McLain on the 'Ed Sullivan Show'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1979996727341109479) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-19T19:43Z 27.2K followers, 2928 engagements


""Blade" (SS Mark Belanger) and "Brooksie" (3B Brooks Robinson) made me a Hall of Famer." Jim Palmer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1979996910820761944) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-19T19:43Z 27.2K followers, 4437 engagements


""Dizzy was a big-time gambler. The night before I won my 30th in 1968 Dizzy says to me How you feeling Anything bothering you Think youre going to win tomorrow At the time I didnt know he was a big-time gambler. Dizzy was soliciting information. Dizzy and I both had the same personalities. We got along super well because he was as nuts as I was" Denny McLain Both had XX wins in a season"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1980338533681209740) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-20T18:21Z 27.2K followers, 2945 engagements


"Hes listed as day to day but then again arentwe all Vin Scully"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1726662845923004597) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2023-11-20T18:04Z 27.2K followers, 307.9K engagements


""So to Toledo he's a legend" He grew up watching the Toledo Mud Hensthrough knot holes in the fence at Swayne Field and then he was throwing out the first pitch at a beautiful new stadium a stadium he helped make a reality by starring in commercials to garner public support for its construction. Jamie Farr Toledo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1940381880043376788) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-07-02T12:07Z 27.2K followers, 3349 engagements


"I figured I was getting closer to the end when the bullpen catcher started taking his glove off before I was finished throwing. Greg Maddux For ten years running Greg Maddux could boast of being the winningest pitcher over the previous XX seasons a remarkable feat that remains unmatched in major league history. Greg Madduxs streak would have been XX straight years but it was interrupted by Randy Johnson Greg Maddux pitching for Peoria"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1970916617933471795) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-09-24T18:21Z 27.1K followers, 2167 engagements


""Bye Bye Balboni" Steve Balboni to a reporter after hitting a grand slam: Hitting your first grand slam is a thrill. Ill always remember this. Reporter: You hit a grand slam two years ago Steve. Balboni: Oh yeah. I guess I forgot about that one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1972762614594932771) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-09-29T20:37Z 27.2K followers, 37.4K engagements


"A reporter asked Rickey Henderson if Ken Caminitis estimate that XX% of Major League players were taking steroids was accurate. Rickey's response was Well Rickeys not one of them so thats XX percent right there"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1974551071617171518) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-04T19:03Z 27.1K followers, 2551 engagements


"Are you sure The team that came closest to signing Sandy Koufax away from the Dodgers was the Pittsburgh Pirates. Regional scout Ed McCarrick was tipped about Sandy Koufax by a call from a civilian bird dog and so chief scout Clyde Sukeforth and Branch Rickey Jr. went to see a Coney Island League game Koufax was pitching for the 'Parkviews' at Dyker Field. Koufax got banged around because he was ill that day but Sukeforth like McCarrick noted not only Koufax's fastball but his developing curve. Sukeforth thought enough of Koufax to arrange a Forbes Field audition. But Rickey was not impressed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1974628745546727583) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-05T00:12Z 27.1K followers, 4642 engagements


"In 1961 around the time Bob Dylans career was taking off Roger Maris broke Babe Ruths record with XX home runs. In the book Roger Maris: Baseballs Reluctant Hero by Tom Clavin and Danny Peary the first chapter has a short byte on how Bob Dylan became a fan of Maris during his 1961 home run chase. To quote: Among those rooting for Roger Maris as he closed in on Babe Ruths record in September of 1961 was a folksinger whose nascent career took off that month in New York City thanks to a rave in the Times and his first studio work. Although he wasnt much of a sports fan Bob Dylan felt pride when"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1976609859727429767) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-10T11:24Z 27.2K followers, 3733 engagements


""It's hard to understand why Kenny Williams isn't enshrined in Cooperstown. Williams played with the Reds St. Louis Browns and Boston Red Sox from 1915 to 1929. One of baseball's finest hitters he compiled a lifetime batting average of .319 46th all-time. His slugging average of .531 is 23rd and his on-base percentage (.393) tied for 60th. During three sensational years at the height of his career (1921-1924) Williams averaged XXX runs scored XXX hits XX doubles XX triples XX home runs XXX RBIs XX stolen bases and a .345 batting average. In 1925 he was beaned and played in only XXX games but"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1976984934158844300) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-11T12:15Z 27.1K followers, 2222 engagements


""I can't honestly say that I appreciate the way in which Babe Ruth changed baseball from a game of science to an extension of his powerful slugging but he was the most natural and unaffected man I ever knew. No one ever loved life more. No one ever inspired more youngsters. I have reverence for his marvellous ability" Ty Cobb Babe Ruth was a longtime advocate of integrating baseball. "When the season ended Babe Ruth received hundreds and hundreds of invitations to barnstorm anywhere he wanted. Of the approximately fifteen games that Babe selected five were against Negro League teams. Three of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1977347494515286043) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-12T12:15Z 27.2K followers, 7503 engagements


""There is no sound in baseball akin to the sound of Mickey Mantle hitting a home run the crunchy sound of an axe biting into a tree yet magnified a hundred times in the vast cavernous echo making hollows of a ball field." Arnold Hano "The Commerce Comet" "When I first came to Yankee Stadium I used to feel like the ghosts of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig were walking around in there." Mickey Mantle"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1977349860958355482) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-12T12:25Z 27.1K followers, 3979 engagements


""What color is he" Bob Gibson to Tim McCarver after McCarver told him after a game that there was a colored guy waiting to see him"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1977350087836643602) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-12T12:26Z 27.2K followers, 5076 engagements


""The dreams are that you're gonna have a great series and win. The nightmares are that you're gonna let the winning run score on a ground ball through your legs. Those things happen you know. I think a lot of it is just fate. Mistakes are a part of life but it's how we learn from them that truly defines us.Don't let one error define your entire career. It's what you do next that truly matters." Bill Buckner I always loved his unwavering love of the game and his ability to persevere"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1977433829234119158) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-12T17:58Z 27.2K followers, 4580 engagements


""There was simply no one like Buck O'Neil. He touched all of our lives in ways I can't express. Buck was a great American Hero whose compassion humanity and determination made the game of baseball and the country a better place for all of us." Lynn Novick Producer "Baseball" "Baseball in the Negro Leagues was a little bit rougher a little bit sweeter a little bit faster a little bit cooler and a little bit more fun than anything in Major League baseball. We may have not batted against Lefty Grove or pitched to Ted Williams but we had to stand in against 'Bullet Joe' Rogan and face Josh"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1977705291832529281) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-13T11:57Z 27.1K followers, 1574 engagements


"Phil Rizzuto as a camera fixes on woman in stands: 'What a nice-looking young lady. She reminds me of that old song 'A Pretty Girl Is Like a Memory.' Bill White: 'Scooter I think that's 'Melody.' Rizzuto: 'How do you know her name is Melody' Then there was the night in Seattle the Yankees' first trip there to play the Pilots and Phil decided to tell the audience about this new American League city. Not much of an audience he decided because it was near the end of a long game and that made it almost X a.m. back in New York. "We're staying at a nice hotel" he said "and all the rooms are round."  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1977798058881794250) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-13T18:06Z 27.1K followers, 62.7K engagements


""Whenever I played on an All-Star team in the Negro Leagues with Josh Gibson Josh was the catcher. I played third base. Everything I could do Josh Gibson could do better. I couldnt carry his mitt". Roy Campanella "In 1936 high school student Roy Campanella was invited by the Phillies to work out Shibe Park but when he arrived they discovered he was black the offer was rescinded. In 1941 Campanella received a telegram informing him that a tryout with the Pirates was arranged but Pirates owner Ben Benswanger later reneged on implied arrangement. "Roy Campanella was held out of the majors until"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1978053991343759832) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-14T11:03Z 27.1K followers, 2830 engagements


""Babe Ruth erupted into baseball like an Everest in Kansas. There was no one like him before. No one remotely like him. In his third year as a full time player that is his third year not as a pitcher just three years Ruth held the career record for home runs. Ruth went on to break his own record XXX times and when he retired with XXX home runs the man in second place in career home runs then Lou Gehrig had fewer than half the number Ruth had. There's never been a disparity like that; a talent so disproportionate to what had come before." George Will "Sportswriters competed to come up with new"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1978414936519819574) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-15T10:57Z 27.2K followers, 11.8K engagements


""Where the little girls in their Hollywood bungalows Are you a lucky little lady in the City of Light Or just another lost angel city of night City of Night City of Night City of Night" "L.A. Women" Jim Morrison met a girl named Lana Elliott at the 'Whisky a Go-Go'. Jim had wrecked his car and had no way home. So Lana took him to her Hollywood home above Sunset Blvd. The next day Jim invited himself to dinner with Lanas family where he played baseball with the Lanas brother and sister"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1978418839621616061) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-15T11:13Z 27.2K followers, 4844 engagements


""The Baseball Riddle" "What really makes baseball so hard is it's retributive capacity for disaster if the smallest thing is done wrong and the invisible presence of defeat that attends every game." Roger Angell Do you remember the answer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1978794844865675619) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-16T12:07Z 27.1K followers, 108.7K engagements


"I can honestly say it took two full years for me to get over the fact that I was no longer a baseball player. Nolan Ryan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1978886481948106921) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-16T18:11Z 27.1K followers, 3308 engagements


""To Mickey the greatest of them all. Best Always Roger Maris" Signed baseball owned by Mickey Mantle. "The greatest thing I ever saw was Roger Maris breaking Babe Ruths record." Mickey Mantle"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1978891761108852979) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-16T18:32Z 27.2K followers, 17.9K engagements


"Drafted as an amateur free agent by the Boston Red Sox and played for the St. Louis Cardinals farm club team the Rochester Red Wings for seven seasons. But his biggest claim to baseball fame may be that between April and June 1953 Jack Preacher Faszholz wore the No. XX jersey and pitched for the St. Louis Cardinals before he gave up baseball to become an ordained Lutheran ChurchMissouri Synod pastor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1979002797820465465) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-17T01:53Z 27.2K followers, 4004 engagements


"Bob Gibson's fierceness and evil intent on the mound were often attributed to what many perceived to be Gibsons scowling demeanor. In fact the infamous scowl was actually a squint. Bob Gibson had poor eyesight and had a hard time focusing on the catchers sign. Gibson used to tell a very funny story about showing up with Bill White at Willie Mays house for dinner. When Mays opened the door he looked at White quizzically and said Who the hell is that White replied Cmon Willie thats Gibson. Hes struck you out several times. Mays laughed. Gibson Gibson wears glasses Why dont you wear em when you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1979150063038353689) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-17T11:38Z 27.2K followers, 2802 engagements


""Kenny Boyer was a pillar of strength in the Cardinal organization. It was kind of an understood thing that Kenny took care of the players coming into the organization. He took people under his wing it was kind of like a father image. The ballplayers know Kenny Boyers a good one but nobody else does" Stan Musial "He was the boss of our field. He was the guy everyone looked up to. He was the guy who really filled that role if that role needed to be filled" Tim McCarver Kenny Boyer had XX All-Star selections was a five-time Gold Glove winner was National League MVP in 1964 leading the Cardinals"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1979154522359431653) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-17T11:56Z 27.2K followers, 1207 engagements


""He didn't hit a homer in his last at-bat; he hit a single. He didn't hit in XX straight games. He married his High School sweetheart stayed married to her never married Marilyn Monroe. He didn't play with the sheer joy and style that goes alongside Willie Mays' name. None of those easy things are there to associate with Stan Musial. All Musial represents is more than two decades of sustained excellence and complete decency as a human being." Bob Costas"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1979157892197450037) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-17T12:09Z 27.1K followers, 7508 engagements


""They say Yogi Berras funny. Well he has a lovely wife and family a beautiful home money in the bank and he plays golf with millionaires. What's funny about that I never play a game without my man. He isnt much to look at and Berra looks like hes doing everything wrong but he can hit. Why has our pitching been so great Our catcher that's why. He looks cumbersome but he's quick as a cat. Yogi Berracould fall in a sewer and come up with a gold watch." Casey Stengel "The other teams could make trouble for us if they win." Yogi Berra"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1979158801086583236) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-17T12:13Z 27.1K followers, 4609 engagements


""Not true at all. Vaseline is manufactured right here in the United States." Don Sutton on rumors that he used a "foreign substance" on the ball. Sutton in his day was as renowned for the scuffball as Gaylord Perry was for the spitter. When Perry met Sutton for the first time Perry reached into his pocket and gave Sutton a tube of Vaseline as a gag gift. Without missing a beat Sutton reached into his own pocket and gave Perry a square of sandpaper 42-year-old Don Sutton of the California Angels was facing off against 44-year-old Tommy John of the New York Yankees at a game played in Anaheim."  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1979254618816418041) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-17T18:34Z 27.1K followers, 5328 engagements


""I scouted 90000 players in my lifetime. Dick Allen was the greatest player I ever saw." Veteren Phillies Scout John Ogden "Dick Allen hits the ball harder than any player Ive ever seen." Willie Mays "Goose Gossage loved him. Because Dick talked to him about pitching You've got a fastball everybody can hit especially left-handers. You've got to knock these guys down. And that's what turned Gossage into when he went to New York to what he was." Bill Melton "He had the most amazing season in 1972 Ive ever seen. Hes the smartest baseball man Ive ever been around in my life. Theres no telling the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1979256069835608338) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-17T18:39Z 27.1K followers, 2974 engagements


""I wasn't the best hitter Ted Williams was. I wasn't the best fielder Roberto Clemente was. I wasn't the best base stealer Maury Wills was. But I was among the best in everything." Willie Mays Leaving Candlestick in his pink Chrysler Imperial71. I love the license plate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1979519969642574044) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-18T12:08Z 27.1K followers, 4043 engagements


""Everybody tries to make the excuse that injuries shortened my career. Truth is after I'd had a knee operation the doctors would give me rehab work to do but I wouldn't do it. I'd be out drinking. The first time I hurt my knee in the 1951 World Series I was only XX. I thought 'Hey I'll be all right. I hurt my knees again through the years and I just thought they'd naturally come back'. Everything had always come natural to me. I didn't work hard at it. When the last World Series game was over I didn't think about baseball until the spring. I blame that on stupidity." Mickey Mantle Joe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1979520682011595185) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-18T12:11Z 27.1K followers, 2830 engagements


""Ted signed on for life to the Jimmy Fund helping make it the best-loved charity in New England. Ted's name is synonymous with our battle against cancer." Mike Andrews Ted Williams first visit and hundreds of subsequent ones went unheralded because as Williams said "What I do for the Jimmy Fund I do for the kids." "Ted Williams was debating whether to play in the "Jimmy Fund Game" in Boston at Fenway in 1972. Wiilliams wasn't sure until Mr. Yawkey asked him personally to play so he did. Ted came into the dugout looking for a bat for batting practice. He was in the zone now not like the rest"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1979521916743376983) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-18T12:16Z 27.1K followers, 1892 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 1955 World Series"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1979522737488920676) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-18T12:19Z 27.1K followers, 3593 engagements


""When Brooks Robinson was in the second grade he broke his left arm and collarbone in an accident. Neither Brooks Jr. nor his father Brooks Sr. had time to wait for the injury to heal. There was baseball to play So Brooks Sr. put a ball in his sons right hand and taught him how to throw right-handed. He put a sawed-off broomstick in his right hand and taught him how to swing right-handed. By the time the injury did heal Brooks Jr. was uninterested in relearning the game as a lefty. And anyway lefties dont play third base". "When you're talking about Brooks Robinson you are not only talking"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1979523688358683025) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-18T12:23Z 27.1K followers, 2113 engagements


"One day Gates Brown wasn't in the Tigers starting lineup so he grabbed two hot dogs from the clubhouse. Manager Mayo Smith told him to pinch hit. He stuffed the hot dogs in his jersey to hide them from his manager. "I always wanted to get a hit every time I went to the plate. This was one time I didn't want to get a hit. I'll be damned if I didn't smack one in the gap and I had to slide into second-head first no less. I was safe at second with a double. But when I stoop up I had mustard and ketchup and smashed hot dogs and buns all over me. The fielders took one look at me turned their backs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1979524180983889995) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-18T12:25Z 27.1K followers, 18.1K engagements


""When I played pro football I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was you know important like a league game or something." Dick Butkus "Butkus hit me so hard my body almost liquefied. He helps me up & says You Ok I said Yeah of course. He says Well if youre OK why are you in our huddle Hed hit me so hard Id followed him into the Bears huddle. He turned me around and sent me back". Denver RB Floyd Little Reporter: Have you ever been scared on a football field Butkus" Scared Of what"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1979524916425773360) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-18T12:28Z 27.1K followers, 5596 engagements


""Mickey Lolich was starting with one less day of rest. He pitched the first two innings like a man defusing a live bomb working slowly and unhappily and studying the problem at length before each new move. Roger Angell When we got to the World Series the people of St. Louis were convinced that the Tigers were no match for their team. I met Bob Gibson at an autograph signing function years later and he told me that as far as St. Louis was concerned the 1968 World Series never happened. Mickey Lolich "Mickey Lolich was far from a conventional athlete. Labelled as too heavy too slow and too"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1979526651391217896) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-18T12:35Z 27.1K followers, 9644 engagements


""We went up to Santa Fe to have some fun and this night we closed down this bar and it was like three in the morning and nobody was on the street but us. No cars no nobody and there was this guy. I dont think he was drunk but he was impaired in some way that had him standing on the street alone with his hat on the ground singing Mr. Bojangles. There was no chance of anyone coming by. Me and Jerry Jeff heard the music and we went to go find it 'cause we could tell it was his song and we found him. Jerry Jeff Walker and I stood there and watched this guy sing Mr. Bojangles in front of a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1979529582316314767) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-18T12:46Z 27.1K followers, 8061 engagements


""I walked into the locker room and I saw was Al Kaline. I looked across the room and there was Brooks Robinson and Elston Howard. I was just 23-year old kid. I was in awe. I see Willie Mays and Roberto Clemente. I spotted Stan Musial who I idolized growing up as a kid. I remember being a little overwhelmed." Carl Yastrzemski All-Star Game 1963"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1979616141887914098) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-18T18:30Z 27.1K followers, 4046 engagements


""Who is he anyhow an actor" "No." "A dentist" ".No he's a gambler." Gatsby hesitated then added cooly: "He's the man who fixed the World Series back in 1919." "Fixed the World Series" I repeated. The idea staggered me. I remembered of course that the World Series had been fixed in 1919 but if I had thought of it at all I would have thought of it as something that merely happened the end of an inevitable chain. It never occurred to me that one man could start to play with the faith of fifty million people--with the single mindedness of a burglar blowing a safe. "How did he happen to do that" I"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1979878574992638367) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-19T11:53Z 27.2K followers, 1656 engagements


""On a typical night at Dodger Stadium Vin Scully sits in the booth that's named after him perched on the chair he calls home for approximately XX games a season. He has two media guides home and away. Both are stuffed with index cards on which Scully has written notes on the stories he's researched stories of greater depth insight and humor than the ones that come pre-printed in the team-authored books. His scorebook sits front and center in a custom-leather binder. He has another book off to the side containing key stats and more index cards all of which are also prepared by Scully himself."  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1979886281522823600) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-19T12:24Z 27.2K followers, 2168 engagements


""The Cards Columbus affiliate played in the Southern Atlantic (Sally) League which had refused to admit Black players until 1953 when 19-year-old Henry Aaron who landed in Jacksonville and blew through the Jim Crow league blitzing everything the white pitchers threw at him. It wasnt a smooth integration. Dead black cats were thrown at Aaron when he took the field. He and the leagues two other Black playersFeliz Mantilla and Horace Garnergot death threats were derided with racial slurs spit at by fans and routinely harassed by local cops and sheriffs deputies. It wasnt much better four years"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1979887348889342017) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-19T12:28Z 27.2K followers, 1680 engagements


"Never raise a son to be a reliever. George Fingers father of "Rollie" Fingers "Now you've got the long reliever the middle man the set-up man the short man the stopper whatever you want to call it guys who just pitch one inning at a time. I came in with Gaylord Perry winning by a run and saved XX of his XX games. I was pitching four or five innings sometimes. There was no such thing as a set-up man. I was my own set-up man." Rollie Fingers comparing todays relief pitching with the late 1970's"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1979888945363075471) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-19T12:34Z 27.2K followers, 2859 engagements


""Like the team itself the Polo Grounds is an absurd and lovely thing. It is the only ball park built against a cliff Coogans Bluff so that a patron could walk downhill to his seat. It had a crazy name and crazy dimensions. In shape it was closer to a bowling alley than a ball field. Straightaway sluggers loathed the field because a really noble smash to center good for a homer in any other park only amounted to a loud and discouraging out. I liked it best when we came into the place from up top rather than through the gates down at the foot of the lower-right-field stand. You reached the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1979993685770334220) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-19T19:30Z 27.2K followers, 2372 engagements


""Things change so fast in the United States. All of us have had the experience even by the time were XX of going back to the place where we grew up and finding out that everything has changed. Something about baseball seems to tie us into that change or to link us and to carry us across the decades and the times. As the new players come up and the old formerly-new players become old theres a kind of continuity to it that we dont find in our neighborhoods -- where the old factory is torn down and a supermarket goes up and then then supermarket is torn down and condominiums go up. And baseball"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1980224851878043695) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-20T10:49Z 27.2K followers, 1783 engagements


""I honestly felt it would be all right to play both sports for a number of years" Dick Groat "Your legs wont take the pounding of playing two sports on a pro level. You better make a choice" Branch Rickey trying to sign Dick Groat "Baseballs a sure thing. The NBA were not sure where thats going to go". Martin Groat Dick Groats Dad. In 1952 Dick Groats 48-point performance became single-game scoring record for a Duke basketball player. The record would stand for XX years. Branch Rickey wanted to sign him then offering to put him in the Pirates lineup the next night if he signed a contract on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1965008916854579399) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-09-08T11:06Z 27.2K followers, 19.8K engagements


""When I was XX years old I faced Gibby at an exhibition match in Florida. I tried to fill in a hole in the batters box and he told me Get in the box Im double parked He knocked me down X times and walked me. As I walked to first he said Dont even try to steal. I didnt" Rod Carew on Bob Gibson Rod Carew used a "C243" bat while winning seven batting titles but the original model was made for Jim Campanis son of big league player and executive Al Campanis a career .147 hitter who played only XXX big league games. The "T85" originally made for Marvelous Marv Throneberry a .237 hitter best known"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1972631278831677799) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-09-29T11:55Z 27.2K followers, 5849 engagements


"Harmon Killebrew visited 8-year-old John Guiney who was badly burned when his altar robe caught fire while lighting candles at his parish church in Brooklyn While in a New York hospital John's favorite player came to visit. "Im a shortstop" the boy said. Harmon Killebrew made a deal with John: "If you hurry up and get well the next time Im in town Ill take you out to the ball park and you can meet all the fellows." "Ill watch you on television" the freckle-faced youngster said from his hospital bed. "Maybe Ill hit you a couple of home runs" Killebrew responded. Guess what Harmon Killebrew hit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1974458409417072984) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-04T12:55Z 27.2K followers, 44.7K engagements


"Legend has it that when critics of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant complained to President Abraham Lincoln about Grant's drinking Lincoln replied "I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals." Grant's favorite brand is said to be "Old Crow" a Kentucky straight bourbon whiskey that is still sold today. "Ulysses S. Grant as President hosted the first all-professional team Cincinnati Red Stockings at the White House in 1869. Also a base ball match in 1874 pitting the rivals Yale and Harvard "nines" against each other."  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1980589547772621292) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-21T10:58Z 27.2K followers, 8590 engagements


""The 2015 All Star Game featured the four greatest living baseball players Hank Aaron Johnny Bench Sandy Koufax and Willie Mays who are all absolutely amazing players in their own right. But I'm in the room sitting next to my grandfather Yogi Berra and I'm thinking wait a second: he's got more MVP's than any of these guys he's won more World Series rings than all four of them combined. And I look at him and I said "Are you dead". And he said "Not yet". Lyndsay Berra recalling watching the 2015 All-Star Game on TV with her grandfather"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1980595546885673074) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-21T11:22Z 27.2K followers, 39K engagements


""I played with Willie Mays people have a false impression of what a great player is nowadays. If somebody puts up great numbers they think he's great. But if you saw Willie play you would see games where he would win it for us and he wouldn't even get a hit. He did things that nobody else does. That's what makes a great ballplayer." Willie McCovey "If somebody came up and hit .450 stole XXX bases performed a miracle in the field every day I'd still look you right in the eye and tell you that Willie Mays was better. Mays could do the five things you have to do to be a superstar: hit hit with"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1980702343587885318) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-21T18:26Z 27.2K followers, 1752 engagements


""If the Cincinnati Reds were really the first major league baseball team who did they play" George Carlin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1976979309035503707) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-11T11:52Z 27.2K followers, 29K engagements


""I was born and raised in New York born in the Bronx grew up in Washington Heights. Our school was about XX city blocks from the Polo Grounds. School in those days let out at 2:30 and the games at the Polo Grounds started at 3:15of course they had to be played during the day at that time. I was a member of two city clubs the 'Catholic Youth Organization' and the 'Police Athletic League' and because I was a member I got to the games three times every week for nothing. You could go and sit in the grandstand and thats where I fell in love with the game and followed my idol who was a player named"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1977165246549639460) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-12T00:11Z 27.2K followers, 25K engagements


""In 1927 Lou Gehrig had XXX runs batted in. Lou Gehrig batted XX times after Babe Ruth had cleared the bases that season.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1977347635208962376) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-12T12:16Z 27.2K followers, 4951 engagements


"Ron Santo grew up near old Sicks Stadium in Seattle where he worked as an usher in the press box and in the clubhouse. The Seattle Rainiers were then the top farm team for the Cincinnati Reds. "I shined Vada Pinsons shoes and then three years later I am playing against him. Ron Santo Are you nervous kidErnie Banks asked the rookie. When the rookie took batting practice he didnt hit a ball out of the cage. But instead of putting up a facade Ron Santo answered Oh yeah Ernie. "Every player had a roommate so I had to slip into the bathroom early each morning and secretly take my insulin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1978052483634131054) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-14T10:57Z 27.2K followers, 4152 engagements


"The Pittsburgh Pirates arrived in Chicago on Sept. XX 1938 one-and-a-half games ahead of the Cubs in the National League pennant race. Pirates manager Pie Traynor turned to right-handed reliever Mace Brown. Pirates Brown had two strikes on Gabby Hartnettboth curve ballsand at 5:37 p.m. he threw another curve which Hartnett drove into the left-field bleachers. "The mob started to gather around Gabby before he reached first base. By the time he had rounded second he couldnt have been recognized in the mass of Cub players frenzied fans and excited ushers but for that red face which shone out"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1978055658126602374) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-14T11:09Z 27.2K followers, 2065 engagements


""A particularly notable out-of-towner Ty Cobb paid Shoeless Joe a visit at his liquor store in West Greenville. Jackson gave his old friend a glance but said not a word as he pretended to wipe down an already clean counter. After picking out a bottle of whiskey an incredulous Cobb spoke up. Dont you know me Joe he asked. XX year old Jackson replied Sure I know you Ty but I wasnt sure you wanted to know me. A lot of them dont. As the pair reminisced about old times Cobb declared: Ill tell you how well I remember you. When I got the idea I was a good hitter Id stop and take a good look at you."  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1980227982368157771) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-20T11:01Z 27.2K followers, 3247 engagements


""Mickey Mantle wasn't the greatest player who ever lived not even of his time perhaps. He was a centerfielder of surprising swiftness a switch-hitter of heart-stopping power given to spectacle huge home runs. huge seasons one World Series after another. Yet for one reason or another he never became Babe Ruth or Joe DiMaggio - or arguably even Willie Mays his exact contemporary" Larry Schwartz Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays in a 1980 'Blue Bonnet' margarine commercial wearing bonnets eating corn"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1980229569794719770) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-20T11:08Z 27.2K followers, 4153 engagements


""Tom Seaver approached Hank Aaron before his first All-Star Game in 1967 and asked Hank Aaron for his autograph. Tom Seaver felt the need to introduce himself to Hank Aaron. "Kid I know who you are and before your career is over I guarantee you everyone in this stadium will too." "Hank Aaron was my hero in baseball from the time I was old enough to recognize talent. He seemed so graceful such a complete professional. You could see the power in him the strength in his hands and wrists. I sat through entire ballgames just looking at Henry Aaron nothing else fascinated by him studying him at the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1980231185142886412) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-20T11:14Z 27.2K followers, 49.8K engagements


""I remember hearing how Mantle had lost a step and was a little past his prime. But when he got me in the 9th going the other way with a shot to left-center and hitting that game winner earlier in the series I couldn't help but think how good this guy truly was.and he was. Bob Gibson on Mickey Mantle's 18th and final World Series home run. Game X World Series 1964"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1980596398992052686) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-21T11:25Z 27.2K followers, 2409 engagements


""You're going to be a great player kid." Jackie Robinson after 1952 World Series Mickey Mantle rounds the bases after homering off Sandy Koufax in Game X of the 1963 World Series October X 1963. In the top of the 7th inning with the Los Angeles Dodgers leading 1-0 Mickey Mantle hit a solo home run off Koufax to tie the game 1-1. This was Mantle's 15th World Series home run tying him with Babe Ruth for the most in World Series history at the time. Mickey Mantle's XX World Series Home Runs were hit between the 6th game of the 1952 World Series and the 7th game of the 1964 World Series. Mantle"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Jimfrombaseball/status/1980704082047488414) [@Jimfrombaseball](/creator/x/Jimfrombaseball) 2025-10-21T18:33Z 27.2K followers, 2830 engagements