Branch Rickey Quotes

It was much more fun playing with him than against him. If you wanted one pitcher to start the seventh game of the World Series, which he did in 1945, you'd pick Hal Newhouser.

I know that there are no famous 'Doug Harvey plays.' And I'm proud of that.

The Greatest Living Yankee is Whitey Ford, who came out of Aviation High School, which was then in Manhattan, and helped pitch the Yankees to victory in the 1950 World Series when he was 21.

I'm not sure Mark McGwire was a Hall of Famer to begin with.

When I was working on the unauthorized biography 'Stan Musial: An American Life,' which came out in 2011, old opponents recalled how Musial knew their names after they had been in the majors only a few days.

You don't face Nolan Ryan without your rest. He's the only guy I go against that makes me go to bed before midnight.

I never faced a pitcher with better stuff than Nolan Ryan.

The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.

Honestly, at one time I though Babe Ruth was a cartoon character. I really did, I mean I wasn't born until 1961 and I grew up in Indiana.

I know everything about Ty Cobb except the size of his hat.

With the Giants I broadcast the debut of Hall of Famer Willie Mays.

The biggest game I ever played in was probably Don Larsen's perfect game.

Willie Mays was the best baseball player I ever saw. He could do anything.

Now I've had everything except for the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play.

All backups take their cue from Elrod Hendricks, the patron saint of erstwhile catchers.

They invented the All-Star game for Willie Mays.

There's absolutely no comparisons to me or anyone else to Willie Mays. Willie Mays, he's the greatest baseball player of all time.

I'm a Red Sox fan, but I still have a lot of respect for Mariano Rivera, who's the best closer of all-time.

Pete Rose is baseball.

As a ballplayer, (Dizzy) Dean was a natural phenomenon, like the Grand Canyon or the Great Barrier Reef. Nobody ever taught him baseball and he never had to learn. He was just doing what came naturally when a scout named Don Curtis discovered him on a Texas sandlot and gave him his first contract.

I think the best all-round baseball player ever was Joe DiMaggio.

The ex-left-hander Dave Roberts will be going for Houston.

Christy Mathewson brought something to baseball no one else had ever given the game. He handed the game a certain touch of class, an indefinable lift in culture, brains, and personality.

I jack, I rob, I sin. Aw man, I'm Jackie Robinson 'Cept when I run base, I dodge the pen

Certainly, you're not going to able to go and pull a Mark Mulder out of your hat somewhere.