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Dick Stuart Quotes

1932–2002 United States

Richard Lee Stuart (November 7, 1932 – December 15, 2002) was an American baseball player known equally well for prodigious slugging and defensive ineptitude, the latter leading to a series of less-than-flattering nicknames such as Iron Glove, Stonefingers, and Dr. Strangeglove (as per the like-named feature film).

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11 quotes

There must be the best 169-pound slugger in baseball.

Sure he'll get his job back; he used to park cars in downtown L.A.

Philadelphia fans don't discriminate enough. They boo everybody. In Boston and Pittsburgh, they only booed me.

I was gonna hit one. Can I help it if Maz got cute?

I imagine they'll boo me in Philadelphia just as they did in Boston. That can be a rough town. I read where they even booed Richie Allen there.

I guess you're the manager of nothing.

Guess I'll send Bragan a wire to Spokane, Washington and tell him I see he is where he belongs and I'm up here where I belong.

I had a good time there. Moby Dick was my nickname. I struck out four times one night, and in the papers they said Ahab got his whale.

I thought I could catch him. I demand a rematch.

It was Hank Aaron who hung that Dr. Strangeglove tag on me. I told him, to his face, that he would never amount to anything.

Every home run gives me the deepest personal thrill, although I've hit droves. Last year at Lincoln I hit 66, yet it gave me the deepest personal thrill every time I seen that ball flying nine miles out of the park.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Dick Stuart (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.