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~ A ball player's got to be kept hungry to become a big-leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family ever made the big leagues ~
~ Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off. ~
~ Wives of ballplayers, when they teach their children their prayers, should instruct them how to say: "God bless Mommy, God bless Daddy, God bless Babe Ruth. Babe Ruth has upped Daddy's paycheck by fifteen to forty percent ~
~ Trying to sneak a pitch past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak a sunrise past a rooster ~
~ Baseball is the only place in life where a sacrifice is really appreciated ~
~ No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference ~
~ It's no coincidence that female interest in the sport of baseball has increased greatly since the ballplayers swapped those wonderful old-time baggy flannel uniforms for leotards. ~
~ Pro-rated at 500 at-bats a year that means that for two years out of the fourteen I played, I never even touched the ball. ~
~ Sandy's fastball was so fast, some batters would start to swing as he was on his way to the mound ~
~ I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks in batting practice ~
~ Baseball is an allegorical play about America, a poetic, complex, and subtle play of courage, fear, good luck, mistakes, patience about fate, and sober self-esteem ~
~ The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid ~
~ It ain't like football. You can't make up no trick plays ~
~ A baseball fan has the digestive apparatus of a billy goat. He can, and does, devour any set of diamond statistics with insatiable appetite and then nuzzles hungrily for more ~
~ That's the true harbinger of spring, not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of a bat on a ball ~
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