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.
About Carl Hubbell
Carl Owen Hubbell (June 22, 1903 – November 21, 1988), nicknamed “the Meal Ticket” and “King Carl”, was an American Major League Baseball player. He was a pitcher for the New York Giants of the National League from 1928 to 1943, and remained on the team’s payroll for the rest of his life, long after their move to San Francisco.
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If I’m playing cards for pennies, I want to win.
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A fellow doesn’t last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
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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.
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As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.
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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.
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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.
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Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order.
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