By "Smoky" Joe Wood

"Baseball is all I ever wanted. I could eat, sleep, and dream baseball."

"I threw so hard I thought my arm would fly right off my body."

"The smaller the town the more important the ball club was. But if you beat a bigger town they'd practically hand you the key to the city. And if you lost a game by making an error in the ninth or something like that, well, the best thing to do was just pack your grip and hit the road, because they'd never let you forget it."

About "Smoky" Joe Wood

"Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than 'Smoky' Joe Wood."
-- Walter Johnson