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Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up

Bob Lemon

When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."

Willie Stargell

When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove

Vance Law

When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back

Woody Allen

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

Don't forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball

Woodie Held

Putting lights in Wrigley Field is like putting aluminum siding on the Sistine Chapel

Roger Simon

Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection

Red Smith

Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in

Casey Stengel

Baseball is an island of activity amidst a sea of statistics

Unknown

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. ~

John Leonard

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