“Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don’t like it when someone’s stuffing it into you by the gallon. That’s what it feels like when Nolan Ryan’s thrown balls by you.”
- Reggie Jackson
“Pro-rated at 500 at-bats a year that means that for two years out of the fourteen I played, I never even touched the ball.”
- Norm Cash, on his 1,081 strikeouts
During the summer of 1975, while the Red Sox were thrilling Beantown with a team that according to Bill Nowlin, would go on to save baseball, a team of neighborhood kids banded together to rule the Lexington Summer League.
Stacking up some strong pitching performances with a fun cast of characters, these boys went on to collect their pride and joy championship jackets.
Budgets and stitching technologies in those days limited the per jacket costs the league was willing to spend, but this one was top notch!
“I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.”
- Leo Durocher
“I’m superstitious. Every night after I got a hit I ate Tex-Mex food and drank tequila. I had to stop hitting or die.”
- Tim Flannery
