#baseball

After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else. ↗

— Bob Uecker

#anything #baseball #else #getting #going

Baseball hasn't forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven't lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times. ↗

— Bob Uecker

#bullpen #forgotten #games #go #hasn

Every time I sit with our general manager at a baseball game, and there's number-cruncher and statistician guy - I'm sitting around - they start talking about stuff, and I say, 'What's that? I've never heard of that one before.' ↗

— George Brett

#around #ball game #baseball #baseball game #before

College baseball, I love it. I love to work with the younger kids who are trying to live out their dreams, if in fact that's what they plan on doing after college to take the next step. ↗

— Roger Clemens

#baseball #college #doing #dreams #fact

It's tempting, because as one senator said to me, 'We know if we invite baseball down, we'll draw a crowd'. ↗

— Fay Vincent

#because #crowd #down #draw #invite

I don't know why people like the home run so much. A home run is over as soon as it starts.... The triple is the most exciting play of the game. A triple is like meeting a woman who excites you, spending the evening talking and getting more excited, then taking her home. It drags on and on. You're never sure how it's going to turn out. ↗

— George Foster

#home

But baseball was different. Schwartz thought of it as Homeric - not a scrum but a series of isolated contests. Batter versus pitcher, fielder versus ball. You couldn't storm around, snorting and slapping people, the way Schwartz did while playing football.You stood and waited and tried to still your mind. When your moment came, you had to be ready, because if you fucked up, everyone would know whose fault it was. What other sport not only kept a stat as cruel as the error but posted it on the scoreboard for everyone to see? ↗

— Chad Harbach

#art

The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't. ↗

— Fay Vincent

#big #big problem #clubs #economics #little

She had fouled off of the curves that life had thrown at her. ↗

— W.P. Kinsella

#curve-ball #foul #resilience #life

Baseball wasn't easy for me. ↗

— Ryne Sandberg

#easy #me