#baseball

I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me, whether it be to strike the last batter out in a baseball game or score a big goal in a hockey game. ↗

— Wayne Gretzky

#ball game #baseball #baseball game #batter #big

No, I've never played baseball in my life. ↗

— Jay Hernandez

#i #life #my life #never #played

Nicknames are baseball, names like Zeke and Pie and Kiki and Home Run and Cracker and Dizzy and Dazzy. ↗

— Ernie Harwell

#cracker #dizzy #home #home run #like

Also I'm a part of the people that I've worked with in baseball that have been so great to me, Mr. Earl Mann of Atlanta, who gave me my first baseball broadcasting job. ↗

— Ernie Harwell

#atlanta #baseball #been #broadcasting #earl

Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in life. ↗

— Ernie Harwell

#day-to-day #downs #existence #full #life

A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball. ↗

— Ernie Harwell

#corner #dugout #his #man #old

Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream. ↗

— Ernie Harwell

#begins #bigger #dream #experience #fulfillment

Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic. ↗

— Ernie Harwell

#baseball #becomes #booed #cheered #every

Baseball is a tongue-tied kid from Georgia growing up to be an announcer and praising the Lord for showing him the way to Cooperstown. This is a game for America. Still a game for America, this baseball! ↗

— Ernie Harwell

#announcer #baseball #game #georgia #growing

Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm. ↗

— Ernie Harwell

#baseball #catch #dad #farm #first