Jim Koenigsberger
@Jimfrombaseball
Coach, Mentor, Motivator, Teacher. Master Coach, USA Baseball, SportAus, UK Coaching, Stanford Med, FSU Med School, BSAC Fellow, Proudly Nick`s Dad.
"He was faster than Maury Wills, Lou Brock and Mickey Mantle, even when Mickey had good legs. He was faster than Bo Jackson and Kenny Lofton. Baserunning isn’t only about speed. It’s about technique, cutting the corners and keeping your balance. And Cool Papa, he was a master of…
“In all the years I’ve played this game, Thurman is the finest competitor I have ever seen, the most professional, the best example of a team player. He had a sense of tradition for the history of the game" Lou Piniella on Thurman Munson "Thurman Munson was indispensable and…
Koufax was Michelangelo
"Comparing me to Sandy Koufax is like comparing Earl Scheib to Michelangelo." Don Sutton In 1998, when the Dodgers retired Don Sutton’s number, Sandy Koufax paid his own way to attend the Ceremonies, as they were teammates on the 1966 Dodgers, Sutton’s rookie year. When Don…
The one and only Babe
"I saw it all happen, from beginning to end. But sometimes I still can’t believe what I saw. This 19-year-old kid, crude, poorly educated, only lightly brushed by the social veneer we call civilization, gradually transformed into the idol of American youth and the symbol of…
There's Mickey! And he made the donuts after his MLB career. We went to his donut shops all the time in Lake 0rion and Rochester, Michigan. Great donuts. Yummy!
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Aha! Stan the MAN! My first adult baseball mitt. I still use it!
I was back in Detroit and at the Tigers' annual golf outing a few years ago. Mickey told the group, "the problem with pitchers being injured all the time today and all the Tommy John surgeries is that pitchers don't PITCH enough anymore!"
"Billy Martin said I was his workhorse and he gave me a load of confidence. I liked the guy and Billy made all the difference for me in my career. He was the best manager I ever played for. He knew what was going on and was always two innings ahead of the other manager. One…
"To Mickey, the greatest of them all. Best Always Roger Maris" Signed baseball owned by Mickey Mantle. "The greatest thing I ever saw was Roger Maris breaking Babe Ruth’s record." Mickey Mantle In my HOF!!!
When Don Zimmer passed, it was revealed that Pedro Martinez had tried to apologize the next day, and Zimmer said, "Don’t, it was all my fault."
"Reading the box scores, Scully. You'd like it. It's like the Pythagorean Theorem for jocks. It distills all the chaos and action of any game in the history of all baseball games into one tiny, perfect, rectangular sequence of numbers. I can look at this box score and I can…
“Dick Allen hits the ball harder than any player I’ve ever seen.” Willie Mays "Dick Allen was my mentor. The baseball writers used to claim that Dick would divide the clubhouse along racial lines. That was a lie. The truth is that Dick never divided any clubhouse.” Mike Schmidt…
"Comparing me to Sandy Koufax is like comparing Earl Scheib to Michelangelo." Don Sutton In 1998, when the Dodgers retired Don Sutton’s number, Sandy Koufax paid his own way to attend the Ceremonies, as they were teammates on the 1966 Dodgers, Sutton’s rookie year. When Don…
"Billy Martin said I was his workhorse and he gave me a load of confidence. I liked the guy and Billy made all the difference for me in my career. He was the best manager I ever played for. He knew what was going on and was always two innings ahead of the other manager. One…
“Vince Scully and I were attending Fordham Prep High School in 1943. At a school assembly he was sitting behind me, grabbed me by the shoulders and said, ‘Larry, someday you will be in the big leagues and the first time you hit a home run, I will be the announcer and tell the…
"When Tommy Lasorda was a young teenager, Lasorda went to his first big-league baseball game at Shibe Park. The game ended, the Giants playerrs came clattering by, and Tom extended his scorecard to the first hero to come in out of the sunshine. "Can I have your autograph, please,…
“Joe DiMaggio batted safely in 56 consecutive games in 1941, the same season Ted Williams batted .406. Also in 1941, Jeff Heath, an outfielder who spent a decade playing for the Indians, became the first player in American League history to hit 20 doubles, 20 triples, and 20 home…
"I saw it all happen, from beginning to end. But sometimes I still can’t believe what I saw. This 19-year-old kid, crude, poorly educated, only lightly brushed by the social veneer we call civilization, gradually transformed into the idol of American youth and the symbol of…
