Baseball Quotes - Page 39

• In August of 1921, one of the great American combinations was unveiled—even better than the peanut butter and jelly sandwich. This fortuitous new blend was radio and baseball.

  George Vecsey

  August, Radio, Peanut Butter

  George Vecsey (2008). “Baseball: A History of America's Favorite Game”, p.95, Modern Library

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• Baseball is all about stories, many of which are even true.

  George Vecsey

  Stories

  George Vecsey (2008). “Baseball: A History of America's Favorite Game”, p.45, Modern Library

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• Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Growing Up, Firsts, Complicated

  W. P. Kinsella (1999). “Shoeless Joe”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When the Supreme Court says baseball isn't run like a business, everybody jumps up and down with joy. When I say the same thing, everybody throws pointy objects at me.

  Bill Veeck

  Running, Joy, Court

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If people got hit on the head by a baseball bat every week, pretty soon they would invent reasons why getting hit on the head with a baseball bat was a good thing.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  People, Bats, Reason Why

  "How to Seem (and Be) Deep" by Eliezer Yudkowsky, lesswrong.com. October 14, 2007.

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• Never compare one student's test score to another's. Always measure a child's progress against her past performance. There will always be a better reader, mathematician, or baseball player. Our goal is to help each student become as special as she can be as an individual--not to be more special than the kid sitting next to her.

  Rafe Esquith

  Children, Kids, Player

  Rafe Esquith (2007). “Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56”, p.80, Penguin

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• The pressure never lets up. Doesn't matter what you did yesterday. . . Lord, baseball is a worrying thing.

  Stan Coveleski

  Yesterday, Worry, Matter

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• Kids are always chasing rainbows, but baseball is a world where you can catch them.

  Johnny Vander Meer

  Kids, Chasing Rainbows, World

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• Baseball is simply my platform to elevate Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior.

  Albert Pujols

  Jesus, Christ, Lord

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• I don't think baseball could survive without all the statistical appurtenances involved in calculating pitching, hitting and fielding percentages. Some people could do without the games as long as they got the box scores.

  John M. Culkin

  Thinking, Games, Long

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• That's the game of baseball - amazing things happen.

  Mariano Rivera

  Games, Happens, Amazing Things

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• Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair game.

  Rod Kanehl

  Games, Lines, Unfair

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• There is a rare exception of mainstream sports that have a fatality rate. That's motor sports and rodeo, ... football, baseball, basketball, hockey, you make a mistake and you give up a run or some points. In these two sports, if you make a mistake, it could cost you your life.

  Don Andrews

  Basketball, Sports, Football

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• This is a sad day for the Minnesota Twins, Major League Baseball and baseball fans everywhere. I loved Kirby deeply. A tremendous teammate, Kirby will always be remembered for his never-ending hustle, infectious personality, trademark smile and commitment to the community.

  Carl Pohlad

  Commitment, League, Personality

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• It's always an honor to work with the Twins Community Fund and be a part of all the good that they do. They help people in so many ways. To be part of not only a baseball team, but being a part of something where you're helping people who need help, that's what life is all about really.

  Ron Gardenhire

  Team, People, Community

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• Where I came from with the Twins, they were passionate about baseball. Through thick and thin, it was, 'Let's go.' It's something I have to get used to. I'm blocking it out as much as I can.

  Jacque Jones

  Block, Passionate, Twins

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• He represented the Twins , but I think everyone in baseball felt like they were a teammate of Kirby Puckett.

  Jim Leyland

  Thinking, Teammate, Twins

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• Number one rule, attend to business

  Lefty Grove

  Numbers

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• Rules are made to be broken, so there won't be any rules.

  Billy Herman

  Broken, Made

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Baseball is probably the world's best documented sport.

  Ford Frick

  Sports, World, Statistics

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• I don't understand. All of a sudden, it's not just BA and Runs Scored, it's OBA. And what is with O-P-S?

  Harold Reynolds

  Running, Statistics

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• I really don't care much about baseball, or looking at ball games, major or minor. All my interest in baseball is in its statistics.

  Ernest Lanigan

  Games, Balls, Care

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• Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches.

  Jim Bouton

  Interesting, Statistics, Firsts

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• Statistics are the lifeblood of baseball. In no other sport are so many available and studied so assiduously by participants and fans. Much of the game's appeal, as a conversation piece, lies in the opportunity the fan gets to back up opinions and arguments with convincing figures, and it is entirely possible that more American boys have mastered long division by dealing with batting averages than in any other way.

  Leonard Koppett

  Sports, Lying, Boys

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• Who says there's an unemployment problem in this country? Just take the five percent unemployed and give them a baseball stat to follow.

  Andy Van Slyke

  Country, Giving, Unemployment

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