#baseball

It’s funny, Matt, everyone thinks Roman’s a nickname--but it’s not, it's just my name. We've got military names way back in our clan. I've got Great-Granddad Grant and Great Uncle Sherman and Uncle MacArthur and Cousin Audie and Cousin Achilles. No," he mused, "Roman's not a nickname. A nickname would be–oh, I don’t know, something like ... Caesar or something! The mighty Roman! ~ Roman Meister, nickname-loving manager of the San Carlos Coyotes in The Mighty Roman, broadly hinting for a nickname of his own. ↗

— Jon Sindell

#nicknames #funny

A baseball manager is a necessary evil. ↗

— Sparky Anderson

#evil #manager #necessary #necessary evil

You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time. ↗

— Jim Bouton

#life

Baseball is only dull to dull minds ↗

— Red Barber

#awesome

The Yankees' Facebook page was hacked. The hacker was immediately purchased and signed to a 5 year contract with the Yankees. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#facebook #hacking #humour #new-york-yankees #sport

Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it. ↗

— Whitey Herzog

#been #good #i #i quit #me

If you've ever been around a group of actors, you've noticed, no doubt, that they can talk of nothing else under the sun but acting. It's exactly the same way with baseball players. Your heart must be in your work. ↗

— Christy Mathewson

#around #baseball #baseball players #been #doubt

Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile. ↗

— Christy Mathewson

#automobile #baseball #evil #fans #follows

My baseball career was a long, long initiation into a single secret: At the heart of all things is love. ↗

— Sadaharu Oh

#baseball #career #heart #initiation #into

There are no war stories. I ended up a bombardier, but I never got overseas. And it wasn't because I was playing baseball either. It was just a series of things that went on. ↗

— Bobby Thomson

#because #either #ended #got #i