"You must hit that ball, and you must hit it hard where I want it hit."

"You don't have to get three hits every day for me. You don't have to get even two. But I want one at the right time."

"He was the smartest pitcher I have ever seen in all my years of baseball." - Honus Wagner

"If the talents of Christy Mathewson, John McGraw, Ban Johnson, and Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis were combined in a single body, and that body were enveloped in a black skin, the result would have to be named Andrew (Rube) Foster." - Robert Peterson Only the Ball Was White