Joe DiMaggio
Joe DiMaggio
Joseph Paul DiMaggio, nicknamed "Joltin' Joe" and "the Yankee Clipper", was an American Major League Baseball center fielder who played his entire 13-year career for the New York Yankees. He is perhaps best known for his 56-game hitting streak, a record that still stands...
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Now I've had everything except for the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play.
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If anyone wants to know why three kids in one family made it to the big leagues they just had to know how we helped each other and how much we practiced back then. We did it every minute we could.
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A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.
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When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game.
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I always thought there was at least one person in the stands who had never seen me play, and I didn't want to let him down.
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The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat.
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You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.
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I would hang every human being who possesses a drop of rebel blood in their veins.
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There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first or last time, I owe him my best.
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I'm just a ballplayer with one ambition, and that is to give all I've got to help my ball club win. I've never played any other way.
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When order was finally restored, ... Casey was like a raging wild man. He poured over two strikes, and I singled off the next pitch. Tommy stopped at second.
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Then Mr. Gehrig is a badly underpaid player.
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It's a miracle that he survived, ... He has skin burn and he was dehydrated and you can estimate he probably went at least a day or two without water.
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A ball player's got to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family ever made the big leagues.