The cost of anything is the foregone alternative.

You can't hit what you can't see I float like a butterfly and sting like a bee!

(Bob) Feller isn't quite as fast as I was.

Well I can't rightly say (which player hit the ball hardest), but the ones (home runs by) Ruth hit got smaller quicker.

Nobody saw it, he (Rogers Hornsby) hit it and it disappeared.

Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smoky Joe Wood.

I throw as hard as I can when I think I have to throw as hard as I can.

The beanball is one of the meanest things on Earth and no decent fellow would use it. The beanball is a potential murderer. If I were a batter and thought the pitcher really tried to bean me, I'd be inclined to wait for him outside the park with a baseball bat.