To cure a batting slump, I took my bat to bed with me. I wanted to know my bat a little better.

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").