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Quotes<\/h1>
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By Eddie Mathews<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I don’t know where Hank Aaron will break Ruth’s record but I can tell you one thing – ten years from the day he hits it three million people will say they were there.”<\/p>\n

“I’m just a beat up old third baseman. I’m just a small part of a wonderful game that is a tremendous part of America today.”<\/p>\n

“It’s only a hitch when you’re in a slump. When you’re hitting the ball its called rhythm.”<\/p>\n

“My mother used to pitch to me and my father would shag balls. If I hit one up the middle close to my mother, I’d have some extra chores to do. My mother was instrumental in making me a pull hitter.”<\/p>\n

“When you’re a kid, what fun the game is! You grab a bat and glove and ball, that’s it. I know what Ted Williams and Stan Musial meant when they said it got tougher to get in shape every year.”<\/p>\n

“I didn’t like being a salesman. I wasn’t a closer. I’d go in and talk baseball for half an hour and walk out without mentioning my product.”<\/p>\n

About Eddie Mathews<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Between me and my roommate, we’ve hit 400 Major League home runs.”
\n— Bob Uecker, a rookie who was rooming with Mathews and had only hit one homerun<\/p>\n

“I’ve only known three or four perfect swings in my time. This lad has one of them.”
\n–Ty Cobb<\/p>\n

“We weren’t jealous of each other at all. That’s one reason we were so successful.”
\n–teammate Hank Aaron<\/p>\n

“We were always a winner and players like Eddie Mathews were the reason we were winners.”
\n–teammate Frank Torre<\/p>\n

“I think he was one of the greatest third basemen of all time. He had one of the sweetest swings I ever saw.”
\n–teammate Johnny Logan<\/p>\n

“It’s a sad day. I loved Eddie. When you saw him play, you knew you were seeing greatness.”
\n–Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cmgww.com\/baseball\/mathews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/471"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cmgww.com\/baseball\/mathews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cmgww.com\/baseball\/mathews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cmgww.com\/baseball\/mathews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cmgww.com\/baseball\/mathews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.cmgww.com\/baseball\/mathews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472,"href":"http:\/\/www.cmgww.com\/baseball\/mathews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/471\/revisions\/472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cmgww.com\/baseball\/mathews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}