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Owner of the A's, Charlie Finley: I noticed when you went out to the mound, you had grass stains on the seat of your pants. That's not a good example to set for your players.

Bauer calmly replied: Those weren't grass stains, Charlie… that was mistletoe.

(1922 – 2007) American baseball player & manager
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Spring training should last one day. We'd have the team golf outing and head north.

professional baseball player
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Reporter: Is it true that you’d throw at your own mother.
Gomez: You’re damn right I would, she’s a good hitter.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player
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Career highlights?… I had two; I got an intentional walk from Sandy Koufax and I got out of a rundown against the Mets.

(1935 – ) American baseball player, sportscaster, comedian & actor
Baseball Self Sports

The day Mickey Mantle bunted when the wind was blowing in on Crosley Field.

American baseball pitcher
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The Yankees are only interested in one thing, and I don’t know what that is.

professional baseball player
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You've got to swing that bat; only the mailman walks.

American baseball player
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It's like Christmas, except it's warmer.

American baseball player
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Sandy’s fastball was so fast, some batters would start to swing as he was on his way to the mound.

(1919 – 1998) American sportswriter
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Probably the best thing that happened to me was going nuts. Nobody knew who I was until that happened.

(1929 – ) American baseball player who had a well-publicized bipolar disorder
Baseball Health Sports

Winning is better than the next worse thing.

American baseball pitcher
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The highlight of my career?… in '67 with St. Louis, I walked with the bases loaded to drive in the winning run in an inter-squad game in spring training.

(1935 – ) American baseball player, sportscaster, comedian & actor
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The most overrated underrated player in baseball.

American writer
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The hitter asks the owner to give him a big raise so he can go somewhere he's never been, and the owner says "You mean third base?"

(1906 – 1998) English-born American comedian
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National League umpires wear inside chest protesters.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer
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Rookie Wilson was candidate for Mookie of the Year.

(1922 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer
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Finley is going over to get a new piece of bat.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer
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They both (statistics & bikinis) show a lot, but not everything.

American baseball player
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When you win you eat better, sleep better and your beer tastes better. And your wife looks like Gina Lollobrigida.

American baseball player
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Umpire's heaven is a place where he works third base every game; home is where the heartache is.

(1937 – 1995) American Major League Baseball umpire
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You can shake a dozen glove men out of a tree, but the bat separates the men from the boys.

American baseball player
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