#baseball

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#baseball #better #had #heart #know

One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding? ↗

— James Caan

#am #baseball #bat #crying #dope

Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest. ↗

— Ty Cobb

#better #fittest #had #men #out

When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch. ↗

— Ty Cobb

#baseball #began #game #gentlemanly #i

I don't believe there's a baseball job that I couldn't take care of. ↗

— Don Cooper

#believe #care #i #job #take

I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into. ↗

— Jonathan Frakes

#american #american literature #baseball #biographies #condition

No matter what I talk about, I always get back to baseball. ↗

— Connie Mack

#always #back #baseball #get #i

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things. ↗

— Robert Frost

#both #intervals #like #moments #pitchers

Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts. ↗

— Tommy Lasorda

#counts #driving #gets #home #like

I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world. ↗

— Bill Lee

#baseball #beer #bring #change #grass