Edward Charles Ford Quotes

• I know Koufax’ weakness. He can’t hit.

  Edward Charles Ford

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  Tags in Person, Weakness

• You would be amazed how many important outs you can get by working the count down to where the hitter is sure you’re going to throw to his weakness, and then throw to his power instead.

  Edward Charles Ford

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  Tags in Important, Working

• There’s no easier pitch to hit than a splitter that doesn’t do anything.

  Edward Charles Ford

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  Tags in Splitter

• You kind of took it for granted around the Yankees that there was always going to be baseball in October.

  Edward Charles Ford

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  Tags in Baseball

• Sooner or later the arm goes bad. It has to… Sooner or later you have to start pitching in pain.

  Edward Charles Ford

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  Tags in Pitching, Pain

• Army life was rough. Would you believe it, they actually wanted me to pitch three times a week.

  Edward Charles Ford

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Army

• The way to make coaches think you’re in shape in the spring is to get a tan.

  Edward Charles Ford

• I never threw the spitter, well maybe once or twice when I really needed to get a guy out real bad.

  Edward Charles Ford

• Hell, if I didn’t drink drink or smoke, I’d win twenty games every year. It’s easy when you don’t drink or smoke or horse around.

  Edward Charles Ford

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Birth:	21st October, 1928
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Baseball Player

About

Edward Charles "Whitey" Ford was born in New York. He is an American former professional baseball pitcher who spent his entire 16-year Major League Baseball career with the New York Yankees. He was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974. He is a ten-time MLB All-Star and six-time World Series champion. Ford won both the Cy Young Award and World Series Most Valuable Player Award in 1961.

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