Quotes about base
baseball community mind
Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community. George Will
baseball umpires islands
They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice, icy islands of emotionless calculation. In short, umpires should be acute Republicans.
baseball heaven mortals
Baseball is Heaven's gift to mortals.
baseball ties progression
It (baseball) has no clock, no ties and no Liberal intrusions into the organized progression.
baseball years yankees
Twenty years ago rooting for the Yankees was like rooting for IBM.
baseball athens democratic
Baseball, like Pericles' Athens (or any other good society), is simultaneously democratic and aristrocratic. Anyone can enjoy it, but the more you apply yourself, the more you enjoy it.
baseball book weather
(Barry) Bonds' records must remain part of baseball's history. His hits happened. Erase them and there will be discrepancies in baseball's bookkeeping about the records of the pitchers who gave them up. George Orwell said that in totalitarian societies, yesterday's weather could be changed by decree. Baseball, indeed America, is not like that. Besides, the people who care about the record book - serious fans - will know how to read it. That may be Bonds' biggest worry.
baseball spring florida
America overflows with specious 'victims' demanding redress for spurious grievances. However, one genuinely oppressed minority is getting overdue relief. Beginning with spring training in Arizona and Florida, Major League Baseball, taking pity on traumatized pitchers, is directing umpires to enforce the strike zone as defined in the rulebook. What a concept.
baseball games long
Baseball is a habit. The slowly rising crescendo of each game, the rhythm of the long season--these are the essentials and they are remarkably unchanged over nearly a century and a half. Of how many American institutions can that be said?
baseball thinking trivia
Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial.
baseball years sixteen
A baseball bat could not have hit me harder than that smile did. I was sixteen years old. In that time, how many thousands of smiles had been aimed at me? so why did this one feel like the first? Jerry Spinelli
baseball sex mean
I look in the mirror and I don't see a sex symbol. I just see a guy who looks like he's been beaten with a baseball bat. I mean, is this the face of a sex symbol? They say that because I work in the movies. Javier Bardem
baseball fans chicago
[On the Chicago Cubs:] Being a Cubs fan prepares you for life - and Washington. Hillary Clinton
baseball country next-day
I returned to the white House after midnight more depressed than ever before. I had long since arranged to attend the World Series in Philadelphia the next day. Although I like baseball, I kept this engagement only because I felt that my presence at a sporting event might be a gesture of reassurance to a country suffering from a severe attack of 'jitters.' Herbert Hoover
baseball exercise boys
Through baseball we channel boys desire for exercise and let off their explosive violence without letting them get into the police court.
baseball new-york congratulations
I SEND YOU MY HEARTY CONGRATULATIONS UPON BEGINNING THE THIRTIETH YEAR OF YOUR GREAT CAREER AS MANAGER OF THE NEW YORK GIANTS, IN WHICH YOU HAVE DONE SO MUCH TO UPHOLD THE TRADITIONS OF CLEAN SPORTSMANSHIP IN THE MOST BELOVED NATIONAL GAME.
baseball medicine doctors
I shall tell my doctors baseball has more curative powers than all their medicine.
baseball games presidential
Somebody has inquired as to whether I will be going to the opening baseball game. I hope to have that pleasure.
baseball country beer
I was not able to work up much enthusiasm over the ball game, and in the midst of it I was handed a note informing me of the sudden death of Senator Dwight morrow. He had proved a great pillar of strength in the senate and his death was a great loss to the country and to me. I left the ballpark with the chant of the crowd ringing in my ears, 'We Want Beer!'
baseball team presidential
I was for a short time on the baseball team as shortstop, where I was no good.
baseball impact presidential
Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.
baseball pride years
I pride myself on being one of the oldest fans. I can certainly count up about seventy years of devotion.
baseball games idiot
Baseball is a game played by idiots for morons. F. Scott Fitzgerald
baseball thinking years
If I walked back into the booth in the year 2025, I don't think it would have changed much. I think baseball would be played and managed pretty much the same as it is today. It's a great survivor. Ernie Harwell
baseball teenage men
Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That's baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, 'I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.'
baseball jobs atlanta
Also I'm a part of the people that I've worked with in baseball that have been so great to me, Mr. Earl Mann of Atlanta, who gave me my first baseball broadcasting job.
baseball growing-up kids
Baseball is a tongue-tied kid from Georgia growing up to be an announcer and praising the Lord for showing him the way to Cooperstown. This is a game for America. Still a game for America, this baseball!
baseball men race
Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic.
baseball running dog
Wheaties was the big sponsor in those days (1940s). They sponsored almost all the baseball games in the majors and the minors. That was a lot of Wheaties. I think there were twenty-four boxes in a case and some of these guys were hitting twenty-five and thirty home runs a season. We had a dog in those days named Blue Grass and the players used to give us their Wheaties for him. Blue Grass loved Wheaties and so did I.
baseball continuity seasons
Baseball is continuity. Pitch to pitch. Inning to inning. Season to season.
baseball men old-man
A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.
baseball dad president
Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm.
baseball men years
There's a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus Wagner hit a triple in Pittsburgh 46 years ago. That's baseball.