#baseball

Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal. ↗

— Pete Rose

#having #license #like #living #playing

Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray. ↗

— Joe Garagiola

#baseball #color #creed #first #game

I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does. ↗

— Joe Garagiola

#because #cards #credit #credit cards #does

The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as "steroids." ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#baseball #best #crack #down #example

I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world. ↗

— Bill Lee

#baseball #beer #bring #change #grass

That was real baseball. We weren't playing for money. They gave us Mickey Mouse watches that ran backwards. ↗

— Bill Lee

#baseball #gave #mickey #mickey mouse #money

The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too. ↗

— Michael Lewis

#being #enough #hard #local #play

People who think they know what they are talking about when they talk about baseball include the announcers and all of the sports press - no matter how much evidence you present them to the contrary they will continue to think that what they think is right. ↗

— Michael Lewis

#announcers #baseball #continue #contrary #evidence

The Oakland clubhouse is a wonderful place. A lot of these guys feel like rejects. They were rejects and they feel - they can tell you how baseball screwed up. ↗

— Michael Lewis

#clubhouse #feel #guys #how #like

The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons. ↗

— Michael Lewis

#baseball #deeply #fan #fathers #rooted