Bats Quote by Ken Griffey, Jr

When we [the Braves] won the World Series in '95, I went nuts. I mean, that was my team.

— Jeff Francoeur

Going through college a Red Sox fan and knowing the history behind everything that was going on back in the '80s and finally getting…

— Tim Wakefield

Everyone I knew was a Red Sox fan. Living up there in 1967 - the Impossible Dream season - that moment was incredibly compelling.…

— Bill de Blasio

We won. The media. We destroyed Barry Bonds, drove him crazy, turned the most disciplined and feared hitter the game has ever known into…

— Jason Whitlock

Through the mid-80s I watched my team struggle, but in 1988 the A's made it to the Series. I was at Game 5 that…

— Ryan Fleck

I'm helplessly and permanently a Red Sox fan. It was like first love...You never forget. It's special. It's the first time I saw a…

— Simon Schama

In 1960 when Pittsburgh beat us in the World Series, we outscored them 55-27. It was the only time I think the better team…

— Mickey Mantle

The Red Sox hadn't won in 86 years when we took over. We didn't run from that challenge - we embraced it.

— Theo Epstein

The Yankees won the pennant, we went on to the World Series, 41 years after that in the city of Toronto. The great city…

— Dave Winfield

I was really happy with the 2,000th hit, because before the at-bat, I wanted to make sure my uniform looked good, my socks looked…

— Joey Votto

So much happened (in 1968) it was hard to keep up with everything. We had Denny McLain's thirty-one victories, Gates Brown's great pinch-hitting in…

— Ernie Harwell

I loved baseball. I was a pitcher. I loved being on the mound because I also loved being at the center of the action,…

— John Hickenlooper