I'm flattered that so many baseball people think I'm a Hall of Famer. But what's hard to believe is how one-hundred and fifty plus people have changed their minds about me since I became eligible, because I haven't had a base hit since then.

Ruben Amaro Jr. He said that he once had a habit of keeping a successful baseball bat in bed with him between games not trusting the clubhouse crew to give him the same bat the next day. He is interred in the Gladwyne Methodist Church Cemetery Montgomery County Pennsylvania.

He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1995. He was born in Tilden Nebraska (some sources give his full middle name as "Richie").