Dick Stuart

“Every home run gives me the deepest personal thrill, although I've hit droves. Last year at Lincoln I hit 66, yet it gave me the deepest personal thrill every time I seen that ball flying nine miles out of the park.”

“I guess that makes you the manager of nothing.”

“Guess I'll send Bragan a wire to and tell him I see he is where he belongs and I'm up here where I belong.”

“I was gonna hit one. Can I help it if Maz got cute?”

“There must be the best 169-pound slugger in baseball.”

“Philadelphia fans don't discriminate enough. They boo everybody. In Boston and Pittsburgh, they only booed me.”

“I never did get a hit off him in the American League. One day Lou Clinton hit on back and it hit Wyatt right in the face. Cut his lip all up, big gash. They held the game up 15 minutes. He got up on the mound, the blood all coming out of his mouth. He sees me standing in the batter's box and decides he can pitch. Struck me out on three pitches.”

“Sure he'll get his job back; he used to park cars in downtown L.A.”

“It was Hank Aaron who hung that Dr. Strangeglove tag on me. I told him, to his face, that he would never amount to anything.”

“That was when I started telling s. Actually, Maz robbed me. If I had hit that home run, I would have made a lot more out of it than Maz did. He never made much effort to capitalize on it. Can you imagine what that homer would be worth in endorsements today?”

“I had a good time there. Moby Dick was my nickname. I struck out four times one night, and in the papers they said Ahab got his whale.”