Tony Conigliaro Baseball Birthday Quote of the Day for January 7th

On this day in 1945, Tony Conigliaro was born. Many baseball fans know the story of Tony C. How he started out with such a promising career---1964 Rookie of the Year, 1965 led the American League in Home Runs, became the second fastest player behind Mel Ott to hit 100 home runs.

Then everything changed on August 18th, 1967 when he was hit in the eye on a pitch from Jack Hamilton. The promising career of a future superstar was never the same though he did come back a few years later and won the American League Comeback Player of the Year Award.

Sadly he retired after one year with the Angels in 1971 and passed away at the age of 45.

A Massachusetts native; there were few people in the history of the Red Sox as loved as Tony C.

In honor of his greatness and his birthday, he is today's baseball birthday quote of the day.

"If we improves much more, they won't have a league for him."
--Billy Herman, talking about Tony Conigliaro