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Yankee Stadium, it’s like everything else in this country. In Europe, they save all their old buildings for history. Here, we just tear them all down.

Bob Feller

I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.
BOB FELLER

Baseball Sports Yankees
I don’t think baseball owes colored people anything. I don’t think colored people owe baseball anything, either.
BOB FELLER

Baseball Color Sports Thinking
Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.
BOB FELLER

Baseball Hair Packing Sports Trouble
Yankee Stadium, it’s like everything else in this country. In Europe, they save all their old buildings for history. Here, we just tear them all down.
BOB FELLER

Country Down Old Buildings
Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.
BOB FELLER

Baseball Inches Insufficient Sports War
Trying to sneak a fastball by Ted Williams was like trying to sneak a sunbeam by a rooster in the morning.
BOB FELLER

Morning Rooster Trying
I just reared back and let them go.
BOB FELLER

Let Pitching Reared
I went on inactive duty in August 1945, and since I had stayed in such good shape and had played ball on military teams, I was ready to start for the Indians just two days later, against the Tigers.
BOB FELLER

Balls Heaven Sports
You figure they cheat at the ballpark, they’ll cheat on the golf course, they’ll cheat in business, and anything else in life. Players may laugh about it and say it’s funny, but right down in their heart, they don’t think it’s funny at all, and they have no respect for a person who cheats.
BOB FELLER

Business Golf Heart Laugh Player
Sympathy is something that shouldn’t be bestowed on the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.
BOB FELLER

Pitching Sympathy Yankees
As much as we disliked the Yankees, fans and players alike, they were good for baseball. They consistently unsuccessful teams like the Browns, Senators, and A’s paid a lot of their bills with those big crowds that poured through the gates when the Yankees came to town.
BOB FELLER

Baseball Player Team
My father loved baseball and he cultivated my talent. I don’t think he ever had any doubt in his mind that I would play professional baseball someday.
BOB FELLER

Baseball Father Thinking
Baseball in the Navy always was much more fun than it had been in the major leagues.
BOB FELLER

Baseball Fun League
The soldiers that didn’t come back were the heroes. It’s a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you’re a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you’re a survivor.
BOB FELLER

Hero Names Soldier
I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn… If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year’s time.
BOB FELLER

Country Delinquency Followed Time Year
How many people in other professions would be willing to have their job performances evaluated that way, in front of millions, every afternoon at five o’clock.
BOB FELLER

Afternoon Milion Performance

Yankee Stadium, it’s like everything else in this country. In Europe, they save all their old buildings for history. Here, we just tear them all down.

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