“I’ve never known O’Malley to go into any situation where he didn’t touch all the bases.”

Red PattersonDecember 18, 1957 (Rube Samuelsen, Pasadena)

“He had this dream. He wanted to build the first domed stadium in baseball above the Long Island railroad tracks. All he wanted was the land. He wanted a stadium that would be like a gigantic modern theater. The Houston people copied a lot of his ideas.

Red PattersonNew York Post, August 10, 1979