Phil Niekro and his brother were pitching against each other in Atlanta. Their parents were sitting right behind home plate.
BOB UECKERIf a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to?
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I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.
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I just grew the hair on my back. Facial hair just wasn’t appealing to me. I liked it on my back, though.
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I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career – anything for a laugh.
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In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.
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How do you catch a knuckleball? You wait until it stops rolling, then go pick it up.
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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.
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Hey, I think it’s easy for guys to hit .300 and stay in the big leagues. Hit .200 and try to stick around as long as I did; I think it’s a much greater accomplishment. That’s hard.
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Before broadcasting for 50-some years, I did TV, played 10 years in the big leagues, won a world championship – and played a big part in that, too, letting the Cardinals inject me with hepatitis. Takes a big man to do that.
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I spent three of the best years of my life in 10th grade.
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Any teammate of mine that had a kid and a boy that was capable of playing baseball.
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I hit a grand slam off Ron Herbel and when his manager Herman Franks came out to get him, he was bringing Herbel’s suitcase.
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I think my top salary was maybe in 1966. I made $17,000 and 11 of that came from selling other players’ equipment.
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Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go and working in television…
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I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don’t even get printed.
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Today you don’t have to do that, because catchers’ mitts are more like first baseman’s gloves.
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I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.
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I think I set a terrific example of ‘Don’t do this’ and ‘Don’t do that.’ And that’s one of the things that I’m most proud of.
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The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game.
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The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until it stops rolling and then pick it up.
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I had slumps that lasted into the winter.
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Depending on the weight and model I was using at that time – I would say eight to 10 cookouts.
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If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to?
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After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.
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I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.
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People have asked me a lot of times, because I didn’t hit a lot, how long a dozen bats would last me.
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When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team’s dugout and they were already in street clothes.
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