Don Zimmer
Don Zimmer
Donald William Zimmerwas an American infielder, manager, and coach in Major League Baseball. Zimmer was involved in professional baseball from 1949 until his death, a span of 65 years...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth17 January 1931
CityCincinnati, OH
CountryUnited States of America
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Our guys used to call him Mr. Clutch. He was a clutch pitcher.
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A lot of companies are calling for availability, but we're committed to FEMA.
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I don't want to, anyway. I've got a job here with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. I'm at home and I don't want to leave home. Living at home is a big plus after you've been gone from home for 55 years.
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I don't think so. I have a good job. I'm getting up in years. I don't want to manage. That's out of the question. Nobody has to ask to me. That's the way it is.
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He could have been an engineer and he would have been a great one, but he decided to be a catcher and he was a good one. Then he decided to be a bench coach and he was a good one. Now he is going to be a manager and he is going to be a good one.
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Of course, I was there eight years. Seven of the eight years, we had a team. A team. You know what I mean by team? A team. I think when you go through so many players and changes, that tends to drift away a little bit.
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Probably the best I saw was a guy they said took pitches too much, that he should have tried to hit a ball even if it was a little outside: It was Ted Williams. They say he would tell the umpire whether it was a ball or strike.
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Someone will say he's too young of a guy. Well, only thee years ago they hired an older man who took them to the promised land,
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I'll be talking to him a lot in the next couple of months.
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I don't want to go anywhere but here. They've treated me well. I don't know how anybody could be treated any better. This is where I want to be, and I'm not going anyplace.
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It just as easily could have gone the other way.
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It's like seeing a $3,000 racehorse running against a $1-million horse. You always think the million-dollar horse is going to win, right? That's baseball.
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This new baseball is like a golf ball. I think there are going to be a lot more dents put in the wall at Fenway Park this year.
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One hundred ten thousand ears in this ballpark, and he's got to hit my ear.