Vida Blue
Vida Blue
Vida Rochelle Blue Jr.is a former Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher. During a 17-year career, he pitched for the Oakland Athletics, San Francisco Giants, and Kansas City Royals. He won the American League Cy Young Award and Most Valuable Player Award in 1971. He is a six-time All-Star, and is the first of only four pitchers in major league history to start the All-Star Game for both the American Leagueand the National League; Roger Clemens, Randy Johnson and Roy Halladay...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth28 July 1949
CityMansfield, LA
CountryUnited States of America
Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.
I think I have already signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman, and child in the United States. What do they do with all those scraps of paper with my signature on it?
I just pick it up and throw it. He hit it. They scored. We didn't. That's it. It's over. It's history. OK?.
It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
Sure, it's nice to win. But there's only one thing that's important to me and that's the money we're going to get, win or lose. . . . I don't love baseball, I like it. And to me, baseball means money, and that's all I care about.
I think I have signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman and child in the United States. What do they do with all those scraps of paper with my signature on it?
Sometimes in this game its as good to be lucky as it is to be good.
Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball. He treated me like a damn colored boy.
I keep telling myself, don't get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw a baseball into the stands once in a while.
It's easy, man. I just take the ball and throw. Hard! It's a God-given talent! No one can teach it to you. They either hit it or they don't.
Catfish Hunter was a man among men. He was a genuine person. There was nothing phony about him. I learned a lot from him, both on and off the baseball field.