37 Quotes by Don Baylor

Dobbs is coming along. It's not easy to go down and play every day and come up and sit and still hit. He has done that. Now he's being used against right-handers, but at some point he's got to show he can hit left-handers after not seeing them for a while. Those are the steps.

Dobbs is coming along, ... It's not easy to go down and play every day and come up and sit and still hit. He has done that. Now he's being used against right-handers, but at some point he's got to show he can hit left-handers after not seeing them for a while. Those are the steps.

The Southwest Conference and UT were not ready to break the color barrier. The Orioles took the pressure off Texas.

The Southwest Conference and U.T. was not ready to break the color barrier. The Orioles took the pressure off Texas.

I've always viewed it like this: If you take that player away from the team, where does it finish?

Sometimes it's a real good thing. But once you get it out, the next day it has to be over. Over. If it's not, if it festers, then you can't repair it.

They feel they can get right to the NBA, compared to four years in the minors and maybe I'll make it, maybe I won't. I don't know if there's a lot of parents directing their kids to play baseball these days.

This kid is going to hit up here. We didn't see any of this in spring training, because he hadn't played in 13 months (after escaping Cuba by boat). Nobody saw this from him then. I think it's easy to forget how many months he missed. It's got to have been difficult for him. He's just now catching up.

It was encouraging. He wasn't trying to pull the ball the way he did when he was here before and there really wasn't that uncontrolled swing that he had. He was pretty much under control.