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Baseball
«There are surprisingly few real students of the game in baseball; partly because everybody, my eighty-three year old grandmother included, thinks they learned all there was to know about it at puberty. Baseball is very beguiling that way.»
Author: Alvin Dark
| About:
Baseball
| Keywords:
beguile, beguiled, beguiles, beguiling, eighty-three, eighty, grandmother, included, partly, puberty, surprisingly
«That was real baseball. We weren't playing for money. They gave us Mickey Mouse watches that ran backwards.»
Author: Bill Lee
(pitcher)
| About:
Baseball
| Keywords:
backwards, Mickey, Mickey Mouse, ran, running play, watches
«There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.»
«There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.»
Author: Ted Williams
(Baseball Player)
| About:
Baseball,
Mistakes,
Sports
| Keywords:
fielder, fielders, hitter, hitting
«There are three types of baseball players: those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happens.»
Author: Tommy Lasorda
(Baseball Player, Coach)
| About:
Baseball
| Keywords:
baseball, baseball player, Baseball players, players, types
«The difference between winning nineteen games and winning twenty for a pitcher is bigger than anyone out of baseball realizes. It's the same for hitters - someone who hits .300 looks back on the guy who batted .295 and says 'tough luck buddy.»
«Say 'Dodgers' and people know you're talking about baseball. Say 'Braves' and they ask, 'What reservation?' Say 'Reds' and they think of communism. Say 'Padres' and they look around for a priest.»
Author: Tommy Lasorda
(Baseball Player, Coach)
| About:
Baseball
| Keywords:
Braves, communism, dodger, Dodgers, priest, Reds, reservation, Reservations