#baseball

I'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseball. ↗

— Eddie Murray

#base #baseball #first #game #here

I can't remember, I wish I could remember the first time I bet on baseball. ↗

— Pete Rose

#bet #could #first #first time #i

Why do we remember the Boys of Summer? We remember because we were young when they were, of course. But more, we remember because we feel the ache of guilt and regret. While they were running, jumping, leaping, we were slouched behind typewriters, smoking and drinking, pretending to some mystic communion with men we didn't really know or like. Men from ghettos we didn't dare visit, or rural farms we passed at sixty miles an hour. Loving what they did on the field, we could forget how superior we felt towards them the rest of the time. By cheering them on we proved we had nothing to do with the injustices that kept their lives separate from ours. There's nothing sordid or false about the Boys of Summer. Only our memories smell like sweaty jockstraps. ↗

— Roger Kahn

#regret #love

The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them. ↗

— Hank Aaron

#baseball #exciting #fans #games #home

We're the best team in baseball, but not by much. ↗

— Sparky Anderson

#best #much #team

Baseball is dull only to dull minds. ↗

— Red Barber

#dull #minds #only

Say this for big league baseball - it is beyond any question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America. ↗

— Bruce Catton

#any #baseball #beyond #big #conversation

A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, 'Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.' ↗

— Bill Dickey

#catch #catcher #day #did #every

I am the best in baseball. ↗

— Reggie Jackson

#baseball #best #i #i am

Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture. ↗

— Michael Lewis

#baseball #culture #intense #larger #much