Carl Hubbell
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"Carl Owen Hubbell", nicknamed ""The Meal Ticket"" and ""King Carl"", was an American baseball player. He was a member of the San Francisco Giants/New York Giants in the National League from 1928 to 1943. He remained on the team's payroll for the rest of his life, long after their move to San Francisco.

Twice voted the NL MVP/National League's Most Valuable Player, Hubbell was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1947. During 1936 and 1937, Hubbell set the major league record for consecutive wins by a pitcher with 24. He is perhaps best remembered for his performance in the 1934 1934 Major League Baseball All-Star Game/All-Star Game, when he struck out five of the game's great hitters in succession. Hubbell's primary pitch was the screwball.

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It was funny, when I thought of it afterward, how Ruth and Gehrig looked as they stood there. The Babe must have been waiting for me to get the ball up a little so he could get his bat under it.

My style of pitching was to make the other team hit the ball, but on the ground.

If I'm playing cards for pennies, I want to win.

They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.

The screwball's an unnatural pitch. Nature never intended a man to turn his hand like that throwing rocks at a bear.

Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order.

Besides, there were 50,000 fans or more there, and they wanted to see the best you've got. There was an obligation to the people, as well as to ourselves, to go all out.

As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.

So up came Gehrig. He was a sharp hitter. You could double him, too, now and then, if the ball was hit hard and straight at an infielder.