Baseball Was One-hundred Percent Of My Life.

He (shoeless Joe Jackson) Was The Finest Natural Hitter In The History Of The Game.

When I Began Playing The Game, Baseball Was About As Gentlemanly As A Kick In The Crotch.

Baseball Was One-hundred Percent Of My Life.

He Batted Against Spitballs, Shineballs, Emeryballs And All The Other Trick Deliveries. He Never Figured Anything Out Or Studied Anything With The Same Scientific Approach I Gave It. He Just Swung. If He'd Ever Had Any Knowledge Of Batting, His Average Would Have Been Phenomenal. ... He Seemed Content To Just Punch The Ball, And I Can Still See Those Line Drives Whistling To The Far Precincts. Joe Jackson Hit The Ball Harder Than Any Man Ever To Play Baseball.

I Have Observed That Baseball Is Not Unlike War, And When You Get Right Down To It, We Batters Are The Heavy Artillery.