Believe it or not, we had fun playing the game, too. And I don't see that so much anymore. It's great to see these guys again.
"Harmon Clayton Killebrew", nicknamed ""The Killer"" and ""Hammerin' Harmon"", was an American professional baseball first baseman, third baseman, and left fielder. During his 22-year career in Major League Baseball (MLB), primarily with the Minnesota Twins, Killebrew was a prolific power hitter who, at the time of his retirement, was second only to Babe Ruth in American League (AL) home runs and was the AL career leader in home runs by a right-handed batter (since broken by Alex Rodriguez). He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1984.
Killebrew was a wikt:stocky/stocky 5'11" tall, 213-pound hitter with a compact swing that generated tremendous power. He became one of the AL's most feared power hitters of the 1960s, hitting 40 home runs in a season eight times. In 1965, he played in the 1965 World Series/World Series with the Twins, who lost to the Los Angeles Dodgers. His finest season was 1969, when he hit 49 home runs, recorded 140 runs batted in (RBIs), and won the AL MLB Most Valuable Player award/Most Valuable Player Award. Killebrew led the league six times in home runs and three times in RBIs, and was named to eleven Major League Baseball All-Star Game/All-Star teams.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous athletes! More Harmon Killebrew on Wikipedia.It's very disappointing, ... Anything that harms the integrity of the game is terrible. We always thought we were immune to drugs in baseball, but we know that's not true anymore.
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass"; "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys";.
Tony had that problem with throwing his bat.
I don't think we've been together for a long time. I can't remember the last time, ... Right up until that final out of the seventh game, we still had a chance to win. It was a great World Series.
I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.
The problems he had were in the outfield. When you first saw him out there, 'How is he ever going to be able to play?' But Tony stayed with it, and became a good outfielder.
I think the only word [the Cuba-born Oliva] could say in English when I met him was 'hamburger.' When I see him, I always tell him, 'I've known you for 40 years, and I still can't understand you.' .
There's a little sadness to it, too because some of the guys that were lost over the years, that aren't here with us.
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