A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, 'Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.'

I always swung" and asking the director Sam Wood to allow him to swing through the third strike; Wood insisted that Dickey take the third strike. Already a good hitter Berra became an excellent defensive catcher. Dickey hit the series-clinching home run in the 1943 World Series.

He was named to 11 All-Star Games. Dickey managed the Yankees after retiring from his playing career.