Myankee4life
04-22-2006, 05:35 PM
Why aren't there quotations from/about certain players in the quotes section of baseball-almanac?
eg Jimmie Foxx, Lefty Grove etc
Mattingly
04-22-2006, 07:21 PM
I've added the parenthetical, since I'd mistakenly thought from the thread title that you were referring to the quote feature here.
http://baseball-almanac.com/quomenu.shtml
There are certainly many ballplayers whose quotes are available, but with countless greats already included, as well as modern players also included, there may not have been room available for every single great player out there.
The only person who could truly answer to this would be Sean, our "webmaster" and site owner.
In the meanwhile, for those exclusions, please use the various search engines to obtain these, such as their official websites and certain sports weblinks.
From Jimmie "Double X" Foxx' Official Website: http://www.cmgworldwide.com/baseball/foxx/quotes.htm
For Robert Moses "Lefty" Grove, his quotations are harder to come by, as I haven't found many after searching a few search engines.
http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/hofers_and_honorees/hofer_bios/grove_lefty.htm
His fastball was so fast that by the time you'd made up your mind whether it would be a strike or not, it just wasn't there anymore.
— Charlie Gehringer
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/arthurbaer194855.html
Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf.
— Arthur Baer