#baseball

In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base. ↗

— Ken Harrelson

#baseball #cares #everything #fence #golf

Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect. ↗

— Vin Scully

#baseball #effect #growing #growing up #inside

[George] Foster lacks the name recognition outside of Cincinnati that other members of the Big Red machine maintain, but that doesn’t diminish his contributions to the club—he followed his MVP campaign with three more seasons of 20-plus home runs and 90-plus RBIs, never mind the fact he batted .326 during three trips to the World Series. And just like Rose and Morgan and Bench during their MVP seasons, Foster can say, if only for that one summer, he was the best in the game. ↗

— Tucker Elliot

#cincinnati-reds #george-foster #home

Every day I went to the ballpark in Yankee Stadium as well as on the road people were on my back. The last six years in the American League were mental hell for me. I was drained of all my desire to play baseball. ↗

— Roger Maris

#american league #back #ballpark #baseball #day

I think that's why I like baseball. There's something great about it - you're young, the pitcher's young and he's got this great arm, and he doesn't really realize anything about strategy. ↗

— Bruce McCulloch

#anything #arm #baseball #got #great

I always thought that it was kind of silly that a baseball card could be worth so much money. ↗

— Matthew Modine

#baseball #card #could #i #i always

Why are baseball managers the only coaches who dress up like the players? ↗

— Jay Mohr

#coaches #dress #like #managers #only

Baseball was the darling of all sports back then. ↗

— Marion Motley

#baseball #darling #sports #then

People in the U.S. like good baseball, whether you're on the home team or not. ↗