#baseball

It was the kind of promise a father makes easily and sincerely, knowing at the same time that it will be impossible to keep. The truth of some promises is not as important as whether or not you can believe in them, with all your heart. A game of baseball can't really make a summer day last forever. A home run can't really heal all the broken places in our world, or in a single human heart. And there was no way that Mr. Feld could keep his promise never to leave Ethan again. All parents leave their children one day. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#fatherhood #summerland #baseball

I was a baseball fan myself, I wanted to play baseball. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#fan #i #myself #play #play baseball

I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it. ↗

— Roger Angell

#baseball #because #box #death #faking

I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me! ↗

— Bea Arthur

#been #being #being there #crowd #enjoyed

It isn't me that people love. It's baseball. ↗

— Ernie Harwell

#love #me #people

I miss baseball. ↗

— Dale Murphy

#i #miss

Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. [Dick Cramer] ↗

— Michael Lewis

#sports #statistics #art

I keep telling myself, don't get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw a baseball into the stands once in a while. ↗

— Vida Blue

#be nice #cocky #get #give #i

It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations. ↗

— Vida Blue

#asking #ball games #baseball #cameras #few

Humbled by the fact that never in a million years would I ever thought that I would be on the same stage with all these great Hall of Famers and enshrined to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. ↗

— Wade Boggs

#enshrined #ever #fact #fame #great