“Old Days” “Mister Baseball”,Bob Uecker explains a rarity in a St.Louis Cardinals Team Photo during a 1971”Tonight Show Appearance #StLouis #Cardinals #tonightshow #1970s #comedy

"It was like watching someone drown." Phillies Mgr. Gene Mauch on the 1964 collapse

Jim Koenigsberger Bob Gibson, Tim McCarver, Bill White, Julian Javier, Dick Groat, Ken Boyer, Lou Brock, Curt Flood, Bob Skinner...and Harry Carey. Read it and weep Phillies fans...:)

“I do what I’ve trained my whole life to do. I watch the ball. I keep my eye on the ball. I never stop watching. I watch it as it sails past me and lands in the catcher’s mitt, a perfect and glorious strike three.” Barry Lyga Art by Mike Wimmer

"I don’t know if cortisone is good for you or not. But to take shot every other game is more than I wanted to do, to walk around with constant upset stomach because of the pills & to be high half the time during a game because you’re taking painkillers, I don’t want to have to

"I wish I had an answer to that, because I'm tired of answering that question." Yogi Berra 1952 MVP Bobby Shantz trying on a suit while 1951 MVP Yogi Berra takes measurements & 1950 MVP Phil Rizzuto jots them down at Newark's "American Shops". Berra also sold hardware at a

"All Jeffcoat got for his trouble was the distinction of being the first to ride in the Braves' new bullpen perambulator. He was bashed for 11 hits, six runs, & left under heavy fire in the sixth inning" Bob Wolf Milwaukee Braves introduced the first bullpen cart, a

Jackie Robinson on the NL MVP award in 1949 & in the offseason went to work at "Sunset Appliances" in Queens. The owner was quoted as saying, “He’s a natural salesman, with a natural modesty that appeals to buyers.” The year before, Robinson went on a vaudeville-type tour

“It was Tuesday, July 18, 1967, at 10:25 a.m. Central Standard Time. I know because it was one of the turning moments of my life. It was about 105 degrees that day, & as I walked into our locker room, my Cubs teammates were really worn down. But I was feeling so great. So lucky.

"“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.” Benjamin Franklin "From the Land of Sky Blue Waters From the land of pines, lofty balsams Comes the beer refreshing Hamm's the beer refreshing" Hamm's drinkers at Comiskey

"Of my career in baseball, let us say first of all that there have been the appearances of hypocrisy. Here we have the Sunday school mollycoddle, apparently professing a sort of public virtue in refraining from playing or watching a game of baseball on Sunday. And yet at the

“The rest of us got the word that Red had been traded just as we were boarding a train out of St. Louis for an eastern trip. It was the saddest day of my career. I slammed the door to my train berth shut & didn’t open it for a long time.” Stan Musial "Reaction of Cardinal

"Any fan who shows up with a musical instrument during the Dodgers' "Musical Depreciation Night" is admitted free to the Ebbets Field contest against Boston. With an assortment of trumpets, trombones, zithers, tubas, accordions, bugles, flutes, various types of drums, violins,

"Roberto Clemente, the Pittsburgh right fielder, must have taken a course in the Willie Mays school of outfielding. Clemente looks a lot like Mays catching a fly ball. In the Mays-Clemente method, you catch the front part of the ball backward, which means your head points to the

"One time I was playing third base on President Carter's team & someone hit a pop fly in my direction. It was well out of range, but I gave it a little chase anyway. When I got back to third base, the President was standing there staring at me, and he said, 'You should have had

Sparky Anderson, whom Dock Ellis claimed did not like him, did not start Tom Seaver, Steve Carlton or Juan Marichal. He instead named Ellis the starting pitcher for the NL. Ellis faced off with Vida Blue for the AL. It was the first time in baseball history two Black pitchers

"If you have baseball in your soul, it doesn't go away. It's there forever." Dick Enberg After graduating from college Dick Enberg moved to Los Angeles to become an assistant baseball coach at Northridge State University (Cal State-Northridge). Shortly thereafter became a

“He gets on base. He can punch the ball on the hit and run. He steals & never throws to the wrong base. He knows how to get a walk. He has all the little things that go to make up a good ballclub. I don’t think he’s ever been late a day in his life.” Walter Alston Gilliam`s

“There was just as much noise when Babe Ruth struck out in the fifth as when Gehrig hit his home run with the bases full in the ninth. They don’t pay to see Gehrig hit ’em.” Rud Rennie, New York Herald Tribune Babe Ruth in a Notre Dame jersey and Lou Gehrig in USC jersey in promo

“I’m always nice enough in the spring, until I read what those shitheads write about me.” Ted Williams on the Boston media