Slud is something more than slid. It means sliding with great effort.

All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.

Let the teachers teach English and I will teach baseball. There is a lot of people in the United States who say isn't, and they ain't eating.

I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head.

I only went to the third grade because my father only went to the fourth and I didn't want to pass him.

Son, what kind of pitch would you like to miss?

The Cards had one pitcher who won fourteen straight games in a period of twenty-four days. Then when he lost his fifteenth game 1-0, his manager fined him fifty bucks.