Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball. He treated me like a damn colored boy.

- Vida Blue

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 basebal…

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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 …

- Vida Blue

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…

- Vida Blue

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 ba…

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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 …

- Vida Blue

Sometimes in this game its as good to be lucky as it is to be good.

- Vida Blue

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.

- Vida Blue