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~ People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball ~ ~ Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television ~ ~ When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing.... I told him I wanted to be a real Major League Baseball Player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish. ~ ~ The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love ~ ~ It baseball is an American institution and more lasting than some marriages, war, Supreme Court decisions and even major depressions ~ ~ Baseball is what gets inside you, it lights you up, its supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard everyone would do it. The HARD is what makes it great ~ ~ Love America and hate baseball? Hate America and love baseball? Neither is possible, except in the abstract ~ ~ I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to keep playing baseball ~ ~ Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbers go for base hits. It's an unfair game ~ ~ The guy with the biggest stomach will be the first to take off his shirt at a baseball game ~ ~ With those who don't give a damn about baseball I can only sympathize. I do not resent them. I am even willing to concede that many of them are physically clean, good to their mothers and in favor of world peace. But while the game is on, I can't think of anything to say to them ~ ~ Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades ~ ~ Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand ~ ~ Baseball is a game of inches ~ ~ I ain't ever had a job. I just always played baseball ~ ~ A baseball manager is a necessary evil ~ ~ The sport of choice for the urban poor is basketball. The sport of choice for maintenance level employees is bowling. The sport of choice for front-line workers is football. The sport of choice for supervisors is baseball. The sport of choice for middle management is tennis. The sport of choice for corporate officers is golf. Conclusion: The higher you are in the corporate structure, the smaller your balls become. ~ ~ baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course... ~ ~ Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball. ~ ~ The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it. ~ ~ Baseball is what we were, football is what we have become. ~ ~ We are inclined to think that if we watch a football game or a baseball game, we have taken part in it. ~ ~ When you talk to people who play, the fantasy-baseball player tends to be more ardent than the fantasy-football player. Baseball is a game that is played every day, and baseball as a game in fantasy has so many more permutations than does fantasy football. ~ ~ Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile. ~ ~ Making love is like hitting a baseball. You just gotta relax and concentrate. ~ ~ Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player ~ ~ Baseball isn't a business, it's more like a disease ~ ~ Baseball wrong - man with four balls cannot walk ~ ~ Baseball is like church. Many attend but few understand ~ ~ Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast. ~ |
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