A biography for Vernon Lawhasn’t been written yet.
“We just had a bunch of guys who liked each other, and we worked well together and sacrificed to win ball games. It was a real team effort.”
“I haven't got enough sense not to pitch.”
“I said, 'Maz, if I hadn't screwed up that Game 7, you wouldn't be in the Hall of Fame.'”
“I wanted to be successful enough that I'd have opportunities to talk about the church. I wanted people to listen whenever I talked about it.”
“Sometimes you're going to be shoved into a corner, and even though it's against your principles, against the way that you like to play the game, you're going to have to protect your own players.”
“We played on a sandlot all summer. There was no little league back then.”