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Nobody ever won a pennant without a star shortstop.
Leo Durocher / Baseball Manager
Nobody
Star
Won
Pennant
Shortstop
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I know I can be a way better player as a shortstop than I can at third.
Manny Machado /
Better Way Know
Better Player
Shortstop
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Obviously, I'm a shortstop at heart. I want to continue to play shortstop.
Manny Machado /
Shortstop
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I thought I was a pretty good shortstop, but I also wanted to play in the major leagues.
Ryne Sandberg / Baseball Player
Leagues
Major Leagues
Pretty Good
Shortstop
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Playing shortstop is 75 to 80 percent anticipation, knowing the hitter and the pitch being thrown.
Lou Boudreau / Baseball Player
Anticipation
Knowing
Thrown
Hitter
Shortstop
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You have more time to make the play at second base than shortstop. That's why the game's more quick.
Asdrubal Cabrera /
Base
Quick
Shortstop
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I'm going to the All-Star Game as an Oriole and as a shortstop. It's just always a blessing. I thank God.
Manny Machado /
Blessing
Thank God
All-Star
All-Star Game
Shortstop
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Any time you play shortstop or center field, the majority of the baseballs are hit in the middle of the field.
Aaron Judge /
Shortstop
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I thank those people that thought I had lost the agility to play shortstop, because they gave me more motivation.
Asdrubal Cabrera /
Agility
Me Lost People
Shortstop
Thank
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My dad had been shortstop when he was in college, and you know, when you're a kid, you want to be just like your dad.
Derek Jeter / Baseball Player
Kids
Dad
College
Shortstop
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I was a shortstop in softball, and a lot of times I had collisions with base runners coming in, so I definitely have scars.
Elana Meyers / Bobsledder
Runners
Softball
Scars
Shortstop
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You have to have a great fielder at shortstop, and you've got to have a guy that has good range and good hands in center field.
Aaron Judge /
Range
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The shortstop is a perfectly conditioned athlete. You're running out on relays all the time. You're covering second base. On every pitch, you're moving.
Lou Boudreau / Baseball Player
Running
Athlete
Covering
Moving
Base
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Perfectly
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I made the varsity team as a freshman at 15. Then, I tore a tendon and never fully recovered. I was a shortstop, then third baseman, then second baseman.
Peter Scolari /
Freshman
Baseman
Fully
Recovered
Shortstop
Third
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It's hard for a shortstop to play with a guy you don't know in the middle of the season. If you know a guy early in spring training, you're working with them.
Asdrubal Cabrera /
Spring
Spring Training
Training
Shortstop
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I am a lefty, though I bat right-handed... When I was a kid I pitched, played first, outfield and shortstop as well. Now it's mainly softball with some friends.
Josh Charles / Film Actor
Kids
Firsts
Softball
Bat
Lefty
Mainly
Outfield
Right-Handed
Shortstop
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If Albert Einstein was right, Cal Ripken should have been a CEO or politician rather than a shortstop, because Ripken led by example over and over... and over again.
Don Yaeger / Journalist
Ceo
Example
Politician
Should Have
Albert
Cal
Einstein
Led
Shortstop
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I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981. I turned them down to go to college.
Bo Jackson / Football Player
Sports
College
High School
Pitcher
School
Yankees
Me School High School
Draft
High
Pick
Shortstop
Sign
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Turned
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I've played third base for a couple years. I did well, and I thought I was an elite player at that position, but at the end of the day, I've been a shortstop my entire life.
Manny Machado /
Life End Of The Day Day
Couple Years
Elite
Entire Life
Shortstop
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I was a pitcher, played third base, shortstop. I was good at all the positions and great at none. All it takes is a .111 lifetime batting average to make you go into acting.
Timothy Busfield /
Average
Batting
Lifetime
Pitcher
Base
Positions
Shortstop
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I have the greatest job in the world. Only one person can have it. You have shortstops on other teams - I'm not knocking other teams - but there's only one shortstop on the Yankees.
Derek Jeter / Baseball Player
Inspiring
Jobs
Success
Yankees
Job
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Teams
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When I was growing up, the first thing I wanted to be was a cowboy. That lasted till I was about ten. Then I wanted to be a baseball player. Preferably shortstop for the New York Yankees.
Jerry Spinelli / Writer
Baseball Player
Cowboy
Yankees
First Thing
Lasted
Till
Shortstop
The First Thing
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When the ball was hit, my first reaction as a shortstop was always go in the direction of the ball. You can't do that at first base. You go too far in that direction, and it's hard to scurry back and be ready to pick the throw.
Ben Zobrist / Baseball Player
Base
Reaction
Shortstop
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I played Little League. I was a 'pitcher.' But we had a pitching machine, so I was just basically an 'in-infield' shortstop because all I got to do was field bloopers six feet from the plate. I couldn't hit, so that was pretty much my entire job.
Freddie Prinze, Jr. / Actor
Little League
Pitcher
Pitching
Plate
Shortstop
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I used to get made fun of in the minor leagues. I'd be 0 for 2, and then in my last at-bat I'd hit a chopper that wouldn't even reach the shortstop, and I'd get a hit out of it. The guys would be all over me, but a hit's a hit. I'll take 3,000 of 'em.
Mike Trout / Baseball Player
Hit
Leagues
Minor
Reach
Shortstop
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There's so much attached to playing shortstop that you lose your concentration on hitting, unless you're a natural hitter. There's so much to think about in the field, you don't have time to think about what you did at the plate last time. 'How did he get me out?'
Lou Boudreau / Baseball Player
Concentration
Last Time
Time Your Me
Time Me Lose
Attached
Hitter
Plate
Shortstop
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The overall thinking of the shortstop covers the overall context of the ballgame. You have to know the count they'll hit-and-run on. You're thinking of the speed, not only of the runner at first base, but the runner at the plate. You have to know how fast the pitcher is on a particular day.
Lou Boudreau / Baseball Player
Ballgame
Pitcher
Speed
Base
Context
Count
Covers
Overall
Plate
Runner
Shortstop
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You should have seen Willie Wells play shortstop: as good as Ozzie Smith and a better hitter. How I wish people could have seen Ray Dandridge play third base, as good as Brooks Robinson and Craig Nettles and all of those. He was bowlegged; a train might go through there, but not a baseball.
Monte Irvin / Baseball Player
Baseball
Brooks
Play
Should Have
Good Better People
Base
Craig
Hitter
Ray
Robinson
Shortstop
Smith
Third
Willie
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Carl Yastrzemski was the best all-around player. He could run, throw and hit. He had the ability to play a number of different positions. He signed as a shortstop. He could play the outfield, of course, and third base and first, too. He was a tremendous athlete. Mickey Mantle was unbelievable, too.
Al Kaline / Baseball Player
Running
Athlete
Mickey
Player
Unbelievable
All-Around
Hit
Base
Tremendous
Mantle
Outfield
Positions
Shortstop
Signed
Third
Throw
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There was a time when rival teams used a shift against me. They would put the second baseman on the shortstop's side of the bag, move the shortstop into the hole to his right, and have the third baseman hug the foul line. The idea was to build an infield wall against a known right-handed pull hitter.
Harmon Killebrew / Baseball Player
Foul
Hug
Wall
Bag
Time Me Right
Baseman
Hitter
Hole
Pull
Right-Handed
Shift
Shortstop
Teams
Third
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