“For a while, he was far better than the team around him, and he could give me fits..”

— Yogi Berra

On Alex Kellner, the pitcher Berra claimed gave him the most trouble; as quoted in The Greatest Team of All Time: As Selected by Baseball Immortals from Ty Cobb to Willie Mays (1994), compiled by Nicholas Acocella and Donald Dewey, p. 13.

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