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And the irony is that they wrote better without access to my quotes.
But I would say basically, I would just like to be remembered for what I did on the field.
Everything I was, physically and mentally, that's what I put on that field.
Hopefully, Pete will be reinstated by Baseball and he will have his rightful place in baseball history, a plaque in the Hall of Fame.
I hold my slider this way, directly along the seam so that it feels like I am holding the ouside third of the ball.... (more Steve Carlton quotes)
Carlton has two sisters.
Carlton always considered his 1972 season where he won 27 games and was a unanimous winner of the Cy Young Award to be his greatest individual accomplishment.
Fellow Hall of Famer Willie Stargell once said that batting against Carlton was like trying to drink coffee with a fork.
Carlton always stuffed strips of cotton in his ears when pitching so that he wouldn't be distracted by crowd noise.
Carlton always ... (more Steve Carlton trivia)
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