If a ballplayer is satisfied, he's going to slip. You have to keep fighting to improve.

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

(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.

What is the top requirement for a second baseman? A fine shortstop. I am fortunate in having the greatest shortstop in baseball, Luis Aparicio.

(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.

If a ballplayer is satisfied, he's going to slip. You have to keep fighting to improve.

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