Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base – in both senses – greed.
Baseball Quotes
Kids are always chasing rainbows, but baseball is a world where you can catch them.
He’s pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out. (on Nolan Ryan)
Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
The appeal of baseball is intimately wrapped up with one’s youth. Baseball is very much about being young again in a harmless way. And one of its core appeals is to remind America of a time when it was young. You fly over a major city at night in the summer and suddenly you’ll see […]
Driving a car is like playing baseball. The object in both is to get home safely.
You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
Amphetamines improved my performance about five percent. Unfortunately, in my particular case that wasn’t enough.
On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.
Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches.
