No one had to tell me I was never going to be a home run hitter. I was hitting the same ball as the rest of the players, but when the big guys cracked one, it went out of the park. Mine went out of the infield.
(Doc) Cramer told me I was hitting too much off the front foot and that I wasn't using the right kind of bat. I had been using a long, skinny stick a… - Nellie Fox
(Doc) Cramer told me I was hitting too much off the front foot and that I wasn't using the right kind of bat. I had been using a long, skinny stick a…
- Nellie Fox
If a ballplayer is satisfied, he's going to slip. You have to keep fighting to improve. - Nellie Fox
If a ballplayer is satisfied, he's going to slip. You have to keep fighting to improve.
We won (the pennant) because we've got a superior ball club. Not many stars perhaps, but the kind of team that always plays well together. - Nellie Fox
We won (the pennant) because we've got a superior ball club. Not many stars perhaps, but the kind of team that always plays well together.
On two legs, Mickey Mantle would have been the greatest ballplayer who ever lived. - Nellie Fox
On two legs, Mickey Mantle would have been the greatest ballplayer who ever lived.
All small men, all non-power hitters, must learn to bunt well. It's half your game. - Nellie Fox
All small men, all non-power hitters, must learn to bunt well. It's half your game.
(Jim) Landis is such a good player because he plays every day as if he expects to be sent to the minors next week. - Nellie Fox
(Jim) Landis is such a good player because he plays every day as if he expects to be sent to the minors next week.
I don't think anyone ever liked to play more than I did. - Nellie Fox
I don't think anyone ever liked to play more than I did.
We really had baseball in the family. Even that little habit I've got of chewing tobacco on the ball field sort of comes from my dad. - Nellie Fox
We really had baseball in the family. Even that little habit I've got of chewing tobacco on the ball field sort of comes from my dad.
On October 19, 1949, I got a telephone call from the Philadelphia (A's) front office informing me I had been traded to the White Sox for Joe Tipton. … - Nellie Fox
On October 19, 1949, I got a telephone call from the Philadelphia (A's) front office informing me I had been traded to the White Sox for Joe Tipton. …
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