Don Baylor
Don Baylor
Donald Edward Bayloris a Major League Baseballcoach and a former MLB player and manager. During his 19 seasons in the major leagues, Baylor was a power hitter known for crowding the plate, and was a first baseman, left fielder, and designated hitter. He played for six different American League teams, primarily the Baltimore Orioles and California Angels, but also played for the Oakland Athletics, New York Yankees, Minnesota Twins, and Boston Red Sox. He later managed the expansion Colorado Rockies...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth28 June 1949
CountryUnited States of America
We're going to rise or fall as a state together.
With what they did (on Monday), they won't feel like there are any real obstacles. You get to your last out of the season and the next thing you know you win the game. . . . After that, you don't fear anything else on the field. You don't worry about being behind. You feel you have that ability to win no matter what the situation.
It's what you've been a part of for so long. I don't think I can watch a game without an interest in who wins.
I'm going to try to enjoy the All-Star break, hope my players reflect on what happened the first half of the season, come back with a different attitude, try to find our solution on how to win it.
Don Baylor, New York Yankees DH, on Billy Martin and his predecessor Yogi Berra: Playing for Yogi is like playing for your father; playing for Billy is like playing for your father-in-law.
I've been in just about every situation as a player and coach and manager. I've been in the playoffs, World Series, and I know how to get there.
I'm a fair manager, put it that way. I like to be fair with the players, but there's a time for discipline.
Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States.
My bones are as hard as a rock. Every time I have a biopsy, the doctors are doing hand exercises a week, ten days out.
They feel they can get right to the NBA, compared to four years in the minors and maybe I'll make it, maybe I won't. I don't know if there's a lot of parents directing their kids to play baseball these days.
This kid is going to hit up here. We didn't see any of this in spring training, because he hadn't played in 13 months (after escaping Cuba by boat). Nobody saw this from him then. I think it's easy to forget how many months he missed. It's got to have been difficult for him. He's just now catching up.
I saw the kind of determination he has when he laid off the breaking pitch against the Angels in the ninth inning Wednesday, ... Right-hander vs. right-hander -- (the Angels') Frankie Rodriguez is no day at the beach. But Betancourt made the adjustment and came up with that hit.
It is likely that in the following years, it may be similar or higher in number. Every year residents of Angelina County get back this money and it is spent locally. So it is in the county's interest to promote and advertise EITC.
When he came up, Donnie was a player who hit the ball from the left-field line to shortstop.