Second base is anything but magic. If it's anything at all, it's speed, sureness with your hands and lots of hard work.

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.

(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.

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. I was surprised and hurt.

On two legs, Mickey Mantle would have been the greatest ballplayer who ever lived.

Second base is anything but magic. If it's anything at all, it's speed, sureness with your hands and lots of hard work.