On playing in the World Series, Gehrig said, “Now personally, I was always as tight as a drum before the game, before the World Series game. The constant milling around, the hundreds of photographers, the hundreds of newspapermen, and the thousands of requests for autographs on scorecards and baseballs and things like that. They tend to tense a ballplayer up. But the minute that bell rang and the field was cleared and the first ball was thrown and the first ball hit my glove, then I was just as relaxed and it was just another ballgame after that.”
The transcript originally appeared in the Society for American Baseball Research’s journal The National Pastime #17, pages 13-16 (PDF).
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