Baseball brings out a kind of pugnacious frustration in foreigners. Once as guest of a very old and dear friend in London, we were at Lord’s watching a sedate and important cricket match. When a player let a fast ball go by, my wife yelled, “Git it! What ya got, lead in ya pants?” A […]
Baseball Quotes
I see great things in baseball. It’s our game – the American game. It will take our people out of doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.
Mathewson pitched against Cincinnati yesterday. Another way of putting it is that Cincinnati lost a game of baseball. The first statement means the same as the second.
Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball and they tell you to hit it square.
Baseball is the only major sport that appears backward in a mirror.
Next to religion, baseball has furnished a greater impact on American life than any other institution.
Line-Up for Yesterday’ A is for Alex The great Alexander; More Goose eggs he pitched Than a popular gander. B is for Bresnahan Back of the plate; The Cubs were his love, and McGraw his hate. C is for Cobb, Who grew spikes and not corn, And made all the basemen Wish they weren’t born. […]
Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.
Your chances of winning, I’ve got to believe are really, really small when you score one run in 18 innings.
