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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If my uniform doesn't get dirty, I haven't done anything in the baseball game.
In the old days, you know, they didn't have batting cages. And in most ball parks, they only had one runway to the dugout.
But I got a guy on third, I was in a jam the other day in a game, all those situations, when you need a strikeout there, in big spots. But we are very aware of that fact, that these guys put the ball in play.
It seemed like I always did some great hitting in Brooklyn. The field there was close to the stands. Every time I started walking to the plate, I could hear the fans say, 'Here comes that man again. Here comes that man.'
All of a sudden I'm in the major leagues and we're traveling from town to town. I see the other players dressing different every day. I've got only one suit and I keep wearing it over and over. I'm really embarrassed.
It was funny, when I thought of it afterward, how Ruth and Gehrig looked as they stood there. The Babe must have been waiting for me to get the ball up a little so he could get his bat under it.
I grew up on the softball field. Every day I would take my glove and my bat with me.
In baseball, you pack your uniform in the clubhouse after a ball game, and you see it hanging up in your locker when you get to your next city.
The fourth major league game I ever saw in person, I was in uniform.
After I'd hit a home run and took my position in the field, the fans in the bleachers began throwing packages of tobacco at me. I stuffed them in my pocket.