(Al) Lopez is a great believer in speed and hustle, in the go-go style of baseball. No other manager is so determined a foe of stodgy baseball, lack of hustle and slipshod practices and so powerful an advocate of the unexpected.
Nellie FoxWe 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(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 and Cramer got me a thicker one.
Nellie Fox