Before you go, would you sign that case of balls for me?

Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He was beyond question one of the greatest players of the century.

I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.

Casey didn't easily forgive a guy who got doubled up on a hit-and-run play. He didn't see any reason why the runner couldn't take a quick glance back toward the plate to make sure the ball was hit safely.

I've often wondered how a man who knew he was going to die could stand here and say he was the luckiest man on the face of the earth, but now I guess I know how he felt.

You don't have to talk to me about pensions. I won't be around long enough to collect one.

The biggest game I ever played in was probably Don Larsen's perfect game.