"In my long association with players in the big leagues, I never saw a player with more natural ability than Double X. he had everything you could ask for in a player." — Joe Cronin
Source
Author
Publisher
Date
Page
The Sporting News Selects Baseball's 100 Greatest Players
Ron Smith
St. Louis: The Sporting News Publishing Co.
1998
38
"He had great powerful arms, and he used to wear his sleeves cut off way up, and when he dug in and raised that bat, his muscles would bulge and ripple." — Ted Lyons