As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.
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It was funny, when I thought of it afterward, how Ruth and Gehrig looked as they stood there. The Babe must have been waiting for me to get the ball up a little so he could get his bat under it.Carl Hubbell
Besides, there were 50,000 fans or more there, and they wanted to see the best you've got. There was an obligation to the people, as well as to ourselves, to go all out.
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So up came Gehrig. He was a sharp hitter. You could double him, too, now and then, if the ball was hit hard and straight at an infielder.
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My style of pitching was to make the other team hit the ball, but on the ground.
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Well, I could imagine how they felt with two on, nobody out and Ruth at bat. To strike him out was the last thought in my mind.
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