#baseball

It's a wonderful feeling to be a bridge to the past and to unite generations. The sport of baseball does that, and I am just a part of it. ↗

— Vin Scully

#baseball #bridge #does #feeling #generations

No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined. ↗

— Paul Gallico

#cause #cleanly #crime #defined #dramatically

Sadly, this problem of steroid use is not isolated to baseball. ↗

— Jim Sensenbrenner

#isolated #problem #sadly #steroid #use

In baseball you train the whole body, except for the hip and eyes. ↗

— Rickey Henderson

#body #except #eyes #hip #train

I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life. ↗

— Brooks Robinson

#games #his #i #leave #life

It’s much easier to remember the World Series heroics of Tony Pérez, Pete Rose, and Joe Morgan than it is to recall who set the table for Rose during Game 7 of the 1975 World Series vs. Boston. The Red Sox led 3-2 in the seventh when [Ken] Griffey drew a free pass. Not nearly as memorable as the home run Pérez hit against Bill Lee that made it a 3-2 ballgame, not nearly as memorable as the hit Rose got to tie the game, and for sure not as memorable as the hit Morgan got to win it in the ninth, but … it’s a shame people forget Griffey stole second base with two outs to get into scoring position. ↗

— Tucker Elliot

#cincinnati-reds #ken-griffey #home

tom clancy probably wears a baseball hat when he has sex ↗

— Megan Boyle

#baseball

Why would anyone want to fight Henry?" Loondorf looked hurt. "Because he's a ballplayer." "So?" "So he's a baller. He's got cash, chains, crisp clothes. He's got a hat that says Yankees and it's the real deal, yo. He didn't buy it at no yard sale. He walks into a bar and girls are like damn. Dudes get jealous. They want to get in his face, prove they're somebody." "They want to take down the man," Steve said helpfully. ↗

— Chad Harbach

#baseball #baseball-players #art

Free agency changed the baseball landscape in many ways. It created more opportunities for players, but it also meant increasingly fewer players would spend an entire career playing for one franchise—and that’s especially true for players capable of becoming “legends,” the ones in such demand on the free agent market. ↗

— Tucker Elliot

#baseball-stats #baseball-trivia #free-agency #major-league-baseball #change

For the parents of a Little Leaguer, a baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown into innings. ↗

— Earl Wilson

#baseball #baseball game #breakdown #game #innings