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"So to get to play for the Yankees was really exciting. Really exciting."
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"Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended."
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"You had to pitch in and out. The zone didn't belong to the hitters; it belonged to the pitchers. Today, if you pitch too far inside, the umpire would stop you right there. I don't think it's fair."
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"It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress."
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"Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species."
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"I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future."
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"A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball."
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"I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat."
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"I did pretty well at the Sydney Olympics, but those were my first Games."
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"When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons."
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"The Oakland clubhouse is a wonderful place. A lot of these guys feel like rejects. They were rejects and they feel - they can tell you how baseball screwed up."
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"Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen."
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"Yes, I was in that game where George Brett hit that home run. Billy saw there was too much pine tar on the bat and he went to the umpire, the next thing we knew they were fighting about it."
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"In 83 I thought we were going to go all the way. We had Roy Smalley, and Steve King, and good players."
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"Yankee Stadium, and the Yankees are so famous for Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, all of those guys."
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"I loved the opportunity to play for the Yankees, too."
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"So to get to play for the Yankees was really exciting. Really exciting."
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