Any teammate of mine that had a kid and a boy that was capable of playing baseball.
BOB UECKERIn 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.
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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 a great shoe contract and glove contract with a company who paid me a lot of money never to be seen using their stuff.
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Sporting goods companies pay me not to endorse their products.
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You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.
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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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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 make fun of situations and try and find the humor in things, but it’s never at the expense of the other guy.
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I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.
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I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career – anything for a laugh.
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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 don’t like losing. But I don’t think I ever go to the park where I have a bad day. I don’t think once.
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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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Depending on the weight and model I was using at that time – I would say eight to 10 cookouts.
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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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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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