--- title: "4 Bobby Doerr Quotes - Famous Baseball player" description: "Major League Baseball player (1918–2017)... | Robert Pershing Doerr was an American professional baseball second baseman and coach. He played his entire..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/34f/bobby-doerr-73505_good_now-joe-cronin-was-very-good-i-loved-joe_644477.jpg" --- # Bobby Doerr (1918–2017) Baseball Player **4** quotes in **86** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Bobby Doerr was a baseball player. ## Quick Facts About Bobby Doerr Born April 7, 1918 Died November 13, 2017 Profession Baseball Player ## About Bobby Doerr Major League Baseball player (1918–2017)... \| Robert Pershing Doerr was an American professional baseball second baseman and coach. He played his entire 14-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career for the Boston Red Sox (1937–1951). A nine-time MLB All-Star, Doerr batted over .300 three times, drove in more than 100 runs six times, and set Red S ## Quotes by Bobby Doerr > [Now Joe Cronin was very good. I loved Joe Cronin, to play for.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bobby-doerr/now-joe-cronin-was-very-good-i-loved-joe-cronin-to-play-for/) [Bobby Doerr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bobby-doerr/) [Good](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/good/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/34f/bobby-doerr-73505_good_now-joe-cronin-was-very-good-i-loved-joe_644477.jpg) > [Even after I played ten years of ball, I still felt like I had to play well or somebody might take my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bobby-doerr/even-after-i-played-ten-years-of-ball-i-still-felt-like-i-had-to-play/) [Bobby Doerr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bobby-doerr/) [After](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/after/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/91c/bobby-doerr-73505_after_even-after-i-played-ten-years-of-ball-i_1390951.jpg) > [We lived near a playground that had four baseball diamonds on it, and when I got to be 11, 12 years old,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bobby-doerr/we-lived-near-a-playground-that-had-four-baseball-diamonds-on-it-and/) [Bobby Doerr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bobby-doerr/) [Always](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/always/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a9/bobby-doerr-73505_always_we-lived-near-a-playground-that-had-four_1474701.jpg) > [I never did work in the off-season, and I never did play winter ball or anything else. I think it was good…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bobby-doerr/i-never-did-work-in-the-off-season-and-i-never-did-play-winter-ball/) [Bobby Doerr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bobby-doerr/) [After](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/after/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/754/bobby-doerr-73505_after_i-never-did-work-in-the-off-season-and-i_2685082.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bobby-doerr/#itemlist", "name": "Bobby Doerr Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Now Joe Cronin was very good. 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