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People recognize me wherever I go, where it used to be just New York. I guess people who aren't even baseball fans watch the World Series. I was driving down the freeway in Los Angeles over the winter and a guy pulled up next to me and gave me the finger.Collection: Baseball
I always wanted to play baseball and join the circus. Now I have both.Collection: Baseball
Baseball is a fun game. It beats working for a living.Collection: Baseball
Bart Giamatti did not grow up (as he had dreamed) to play second base for the Red Sox. He became a professor at Yale, and then, in time president of the National Baseball League. He never lost his love for the Boston Red Sox. It was as a Red Sox fan, he later realized that human beings are fallen, and that life is filled with disappointment. The path to comprehending Calvinism in modern America, he decided, begins at Fenway Park.Collection: Baseball
I'm glad I don't play anymore. I could never learn all those handshakes.Collection: Baseball
It looked like a ballpark. It smelled like a ballpark. It had a feeling and a heartbeat, a personality that was all baseball.Collection: Baseball
A good lead-off hitter is a pain in the ass to pitchers.Collection: Baseball
Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for U.S. Steel.Collection: Baseball
I get tired of hearing my ballplayers bellyache all the time. They should sit in the press box sometime and watch themselves play.Collection: Baseball
I play for the poor man. I try to give a thrill to the lunch bucket fan. I know their plight. I worked in a factory in high school. The poor folk who lay out the hard bread to see a game. That's where my heart lies. The rich don't need heroes.Collection: Baseball
All baseball fans can be divided into two groups: those who come to batting practice and the others. Only those in the first category have much chance of amounting to anything.Collection: Baseball
Decades after a person has stopped collecting bubble gum cards, he can still discover himself collecting ballparks... their smells, their special seasons, their moods.Collection: Baseball
Conversation is the blood of baseball. It flows through the game, an invigorating system of anecdotes. Ballplayers are tale tellers who have polished their malarkey and winnowed their wisdom for years.Collection: Baseball
Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it's beginning to seem that way. We're reaching the point where you can be a truly dedicated, state-of-the-art fan or you can have a life. Take your pick.Collection: Baseball
Baseball means Spring's Here. Football means Winter's Coming.Collection: Baseball
Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.Collection: Baseball
Football is played best full of adrenaline and anger. Moderation seldom finds a place. Almost every act of baseball is a blending of effort and control; too much of either is fatal.Collection: Baseball
Baseball is the religion that worships the obvious and gives thanks that things are exactly as they seem. Instead of celebrating mysteries, baseball rejoices in the absence of mysteries and trusts that, if we watch what is laid before our eyes, down to the last detail, we will cultivate the gift of seeing things as they really are.Collection: Baseball
Cheating is baseball's oldest profession. No other game is so rich in skullduggery, so suited to it or so proud of it.Collection: Baseball
Any person claiming to be a baseball fan who does not also claim to have invented the quickest, simplest and most complete method of keeping score probably is a fraud.Collection: Baseball
An almost inexorable baseball law: A Red Sox ship with a single leak will always find a way to sink No team is worshipped with such a perverse sense of fatality.Collection: Baseball
You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.Collection: Baseball
Do not worry. Try to appear jolly and unconcerned. I have smiled often with the bases full with two strikes and three balls on the batter. This seems to unnerve.Collection: Baseball
The great thing about baseball is that there's a crisis every day.Collection: Baseball
Power is a big thing in baseball. It can't be cheapened. That is, a fellow has it or hasn't. It isn't a fluke or great accomplishment, like a perfect game. When Mantle connects, it's a tape-measure job. Nobody who ever lived has more power than Mantle.Collection: Baseball
It will revolutionize baseball. It will open a new area of alibis for the players.Collection: Baseball
I get a kick out of watching him. Everything he does has that extra flourish.Collection: Baseball
I have to give Mays one edge, durability. Mickey isn't sound and Willie is. Otherwise, if I had a chance to trade for either player, I'd pick Mantle.Collection: Baseball
The game shouldn't be called baseball. It should be called adjustments.Collection: Baseball
It ain't nothing till I call it.Collection: Baseball
Young man, if that bat comes down, you're out of the gameCollection: Baseball
Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religon.Collection: Baseball
To me, baseball is not a game, but a religion.Collection: Baseball
Ty Cobb was still fighting the Civil War, and as far as he was concerned, we were all damn Yankees. But who knows, if he hadn't had that terrible persecution complex, he never would have been about the best ballplayer who ever lived.Collection: Baseball
It was a terrible psychic blow... Ebbets Field was replaced by a housing project. How could a father tell his son where Duke Snider used to hit one? Point out Apartment 5Q?Collection: Baseball
My God, it was like the Emerald City, and as you got closer you'd pick up your pace, and you'd give your tickets and go charging inside.Collection: Baseball
Back, back, back, back. Gone.Collection: Baseball
I have never willingly chased a ball.Collection: Baseball
Different people, different backgrounds, different ideals... We walk in different doors at the beginning of the day, and we walk out of different doors at the end of the day. But when it is time to go out on that field, we all go through the same door.Collection: Baseball
I'm a baseball player. I'm also a guy who mows his lawn and plays with his dog.Collection: Baseball
I play baseball and I like to read. What makes that odd?Collection: Baseball
My dream was to play Major League baseball. I've lived that dream.Collection: Baseball
I hope I haven't reached a pinnacle...I hope there's something more for me in baseball and in life.Collection: Baseball
I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player.Collection: Baseball
I would think I drive most hitting coaches crazy. During one single at-bat I used six different stances on six pitches. Oh yeah, I also struck out. So what do I know?Collection: Baseball
It's hard to get guys out when you have nothing to get them out with.Collection: Baseball
You could see the flames and the outer skin of the spacecraft glowing; and burning, baseball size chunks flying off behind us. It was an eerie feeling, like being a gnat inside a blowtorch flame.Collection: Baseball
I had to will my way through that game. Sometimes, it takes more than talent or more than a 95-mile-an-hour fastball. You have to will it.Collection: Baseball
He hit the ball so hard, I couldn't even turn around in time to see it go over the fence.Collection: Baseball