--- title: "2 Rick Ferrell Quotes - Famous Baseball player" description: "Richard Benjamin Ferrell was an American professional baseball player, coach, scout, and executive. Browse 2 Rick Ferrell quotes." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-rick-ferrell-79032.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Rick Ferrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-rick-ferrell-79032.jpg) # Rick Ferrell (1905–1995) Baseball Player **2** quotes in **27** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Rick Ferrell was a baseball player. ## Quick Facts About Rick Ferrell Born October 12, 1905 Died July 27, 1995 Profession Baseball Player ## About Rick Ferrell Richard Benjamin Ferrell was an American professional baseball player, coach, scout, and executive. He played for 18 seasons as a catcher in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1929 through 1947 for the St. Louis Browns, Boston Red Sox, and Washington Senators. His brother, Wes Ferrell, was a major league pitcher for 15 seasons, and they were teammates from 1933 through part of 1938 on the Red Sox and Senators. Following his three seasons in minor league baseball, he appealed to the Commissioner of Baseball to become a free agent, claiming that he was being held in the minors though he deserved promotion. The Commissioner agreed, and he was granted free agency; he signed with the St. Louis Browns. ## Quotes by Rick Ferrell > [Never reach for the knuckleball; I just let it come to me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-ferrell/never-reach-for-the-knuckleball-i-just-let-it-come-to-me/) [Rick Ferrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-ferrell/) [Come](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/come/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5df/rick-ferrell-108574_come_never-reach-for-the-knuckleball-i-just-l_570168.jpg) > [We were brothers off the field, but there was no love lost on it. We fought like cats and dogs. Wes was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-ferrell/we-were-brothers-off-the-field-but-there-was-no-love-lost-on-it-we/) [Rick Ferrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-ferrell/) [Always](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/always/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/50e/rick-ferrell-108574_always_we-were-brothers-off-the-field-but-there_3009602.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-ferrell/#itemlist", "name": "Rick Ferrell Quotes", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Never reach for the knuckleball; I just let it come to me.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Rick Ferrell" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-ferrell/never-reach-for-the-knuckleball-i-just-let-it-come-to-me/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5df/rick-ferrell-108574_come_never-reach-for-the-knuckleball-i-just-l_570168.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5df/rick-ferrell-108574_come_never-reach-for-the-knuckleball-i-just-l_570168.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5df/rick-ferrell-108574_come_never-reach-for-the-knuckleball-i-just-l_570168.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Never reach for the knuckleball; I just let it come to me.” — Rick Ferrell", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We were brothers off the field, but there was no love lost on it. 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