BY TRAYNOR:
- “I ran halfway back to Somerville.”
— after being rejected by the Braves - “Nobody taught me how to play third base….The way I learned was simply to tackle each situation as it arose and master it before moving on to something else. I think I learned more about playing third base in the morning bull sessions in the hotel lobby than I did out on the field.”
ABOUT TRAYNOR:
- “Traynor had feet like violin cases.”
— Ed Barrow, Red Sox Scout - “He had the quickest hands and the quickest arms of any third baseman I ever saw.”
— Charly Grimm, fellow teammate - “He was a mechanically perfect third baseman, a man of intellectual worth on the field of play.”
— Branch Rickey, when Traynor was inducted to the National Baseball Hall of Fame - “If I had to pick the greatest team player in baseball today-and I have some of the greats on my own club-I would have to pick Pie Traynor.”
— John McGraw, manager of the New York Giants