#baseball

Short of baseball and my family, it was gaming. And gaming is a $20-million to $200-million multi-year effort. It's an insane, stupid and utterly irresponsible act. But I did it. ↗

— Curt Schilling

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The good rising fastball is the best pitch in baseball. ↗

— Tom Seaver

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Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished. ↗

— Jim Sensenbrenner

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When you see Major League Baseball putting academies in other countries, obviously that throws up a red flag. You wonder why they ain't going up in our neighborhood. Bottom line, what I see, I talk about... I see it over and over. If anybody can show me I'm wrong, then show me. ↗

— Gary Sheffield

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I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop. ↗

— Willie Stargell

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People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can't think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can. ↗

— Willie Stargell

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Baseball for me was instinctive, born within me, given to me as a gift from God. ↗

— Willie Stargell

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To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything. ↗

— Willie Stargell

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My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica. ↗

— Willie Stargell

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The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young kids in Japan to want to become baseball players when they grow up. ↗

— Ichiro Suzuki

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