A quote from lefty slugger Leon Wagner in Sports Illustrated, 8/12/1063:
"You take that Whitey Ford of the Yankees. He's a con man. He throws a fast ball up over my head and then a curve way outside and then another curve that hits the dirt in front of the plate. People say, 'Wow, he's wild.' Wild? He ain't wild. He's a con man. He knows I like to swing, and he's trying to get me chasing those bad pitches. Then it's 3 and 0, and he knows I'm taking all the way—zoop, right down the middle. Then he throws that curve over on the outside corner. And I take it. Where am I going to hit it? Left field at Yankee Stadium? Too much room out there. So now it's 3 and 2 and he throws one of those curves low and out and I got to swing at it. Sometimes he'll throw a bad pitch on purpose on 3 and 2—he doesn't care if he walks me, and most of the time he knows I'll swing at it."
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From one of Jim Bouton's books:
...Yogi Berra himself told this story. At a recent old-timers' game, Ford, who claimed a record of about 0-5 in exhibitions of that sort, scuffed up a ball that he threw to Dom Dimaggio. The ball dropped about a foot. Later, Ford explained to Berra in the dugout, "I'm tired of losing in old-timers' games."