#baseball

A ballplayer spends a good piece of his life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time. ↗

— Jim Bouton

#life #life

I don’t know how long we talked about that game the first time my dad showed me the ticket stub. He admitted he hadn’t even been sure that he still had it, that he was surprised when he’d been able to find it. But we’ve spent hours and hours and hours talking about it since. And it’s pretty amazing, because that ticket stub sat in a box for two decades—once it let my dad into a stadium to see a baseball game, and then later, it let me into my dad’s world, into his past, to learn about the man who taught me to love a game so passionately that it shaped nearly every aspect of my life. ↗

— Tucker Elliot

#baseball-trivia #cleveland-indians #major-league-baseball #trivia #life

It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

#baseball #curve #hit #how #learning

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've been lucky. I've met a lot of baseball people, and I've learned to value people who talk - people who talk well and in long sentences and even long paragraphs. ↗

— Roger Angell

#been #even #i #learned #long

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

— Ernie Harwell

#love #me #people

When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game. ↗

— Joe DiMaggio

#fun #game #longer

You know, it's a different deal - throwing a football as opposed to throwing a baseball. ↗

— Drew Bledsoe

#deal #different #football #know #opposed

My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball; however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs. ↗

— Jim Evans

#baseball #better #candidates #go #go home

If I had to name the number one asset you could have for any sport I'd say speed. In baseball, all a guy with speed has to do is make contact. ↗

— Ron Fairly

#asset #baseball #contact #could #guy