Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved.
Baseball Quotes
But Flynn preceded Casey, as did also Jimmy Blake; and the former was a hoodoo, while the latter was a cake. So upon that stricken multitude, grim melancholy sat; For there seemed but little chance of Casey getting to the bat. But Flynn let drive a single, to the wonderment of all. And Blake, the […]
Baseball is like a poker game, nobody wants to quit when he’s losing: nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.
Baseball is dull only to dull minds.
From the benches, black with people, there went up a muffled roar, Like the beating of the storm waves on the stern and distant shore. ‘Kill him! Kill the umpire!’ shouted someone in the stand; And it’s likely they’d have killed him had not Casey raised his hand.
It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoon and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on […]
I’m a natural left-hander, but I bat and throw right-handed because that’s the way I learned. But, I eat left and drink left and write left. I’m amphibious.
In a way an umpire is like a woman. He makes quick decisions, never reverses them, and doesn’t think you’re safe when you’re out.
Playing baseball is not real life. It’s a fantasy world – It’s a dream come true.
Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It’s the only time we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot.
