Top Quotes & Sayings by Joe Adcock

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Last updated on April 18, 2025.
Joe Adcock

Joseph Wilbur Adcock was a major league baseball player and manager in the Major and Minor Leagues. He was best known as a first baseman and right-handed slugger with the powerful Milwaukee Braves teams of the 1950s, whose career included numerous home run feats. A sure-handed defensive player, he later retired with the third-highest career fielding percentage by a first baseman (.994). His nickname "Billy Joe" was modeled after Vanderbilt University basketball star "Billy Joe Adcock" and was popularized by Vin Scully.

Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster. — © Joe Adcock
Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.
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