Analyzing Our National Pastime
“When I was a player and you went into the clubhouse, you didn’t see ball players with curling irons.” Barber said this on his eightieth birthday surely referring to the long hair and no shave contests that began to trend in the 1980’s.
“I’m really humbled by this because I never considered myself a superstar like Williams, DiMaggio, or Aaron.” The shortstop on his induction into the Hall. But he was a superstar, finishing in the top 20 MVP voting 10 straight years (winning it once) during the second dead ball era.
“I think there are some players who are born to play ball.” Widely attributed by one of the greatest players of all-time who was truly born to play the game.
“Brooks never asked anyone to name a candy bar after him. In Baltimore people named their children after him.” Baltimore sports writer on the topic of Brooks Robinson.