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~ Good pitching will beat good hitting any time, and vice versa ~

Bob Veale

~ I don't care how long you've been around, you'll never see it all. ~

Bob Lemon

~ Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things ~

Robert Frost

~ Watching a spring training game is as exciting as watching a tree form its annual ring ~

Jerry Izenberg

~ The designated hitter rule is like letting someone else take Wilt Chamberlain's free throws ~

Rick Wise

~ Ideally, the umpire should combine the integrity of a Supreme Court judge, the physical agility of an acrobat, the endurance of Job and the imperturbability of Buddha ~

Unknown

~ During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball ~

Mickey Mantle

~ A critic once characterized baseball as six minutes of action crammed into two-and-one-half hours ~

Ray Fitzgerald

~ I don't know why people like the home run so much. A home run is over as soon as it starts.... The triple is the most exciting play of the game. A triple is like meeting a woman who excites you, spending the evening talking and getting more excited, then taking her home. It drags on and on. You're never sure how it's going to turn out ~

George Foster

~ Baseball is a game dominated by vital ghosts; it's a fraternity, like no other we have of the active and the no longer so, the living and the dead. ~

Richard Gilman

~ Baseball is a harbor, a seclusion from failure that really matters, a playful utopia in which virtuosity can be savored to the third decimal place of a batting average ~

Mark Kramer

~ Why does everybody stand up and sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" when they're already there ~

Larry Anderson

~ It is well to remember that a Martian observing his first baseball game would be quite correct in concluding that the last two words of the National Anthem are: PLAY BALL ~

Herbert H. Paper

~ I believe in the Church of Baseball. I tried all the major religions and most of the minor ones. I've worshipped Buddha, Allah, Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, trees, mushrooms and Isadora Duncan. I know things. For instance, there are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary and there are 108 stitches in a baseball. When I learned that, I gave Jesus a chance ~

Ron Shelton

~ I have discovered in twenty years of moving around a ball park, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats ~

Bill Veeck

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