#baseball

For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#both #experience #game #human #human experience

As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy. ↗

— Garth Brooks

#baseball #before #being #could #happy

I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future. ↗

— Garth Brooks

#future #i #like #picture #somewhere

While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I'll be thinking of music then. ↗

— Garth Brooks

#bones #having #i #lot #me

I love sporting events and popcorn and pizza and being outside, like at a baseball or football game. I love amusement parks, going to ride roller coasters. ↗

— Carrie Underwood

#ball game #baseball #being #coasters #events

For many in baseball September is a month of stark contrast with April, when everyone had dared to hope. If baseball is a lot like life, as pundits declare, it is because life is more about losing than winning. ↗

— John Thorn

#april #baseball #because #contrast #dared

But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world. ↗

— John Thorn

#back #baseball #birth #booming #both

Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year. ↗

— John Thorn

#between #day #game #heritage #hope

Finally, for all of us but a lucky few, the dream of playing big-time baseball is relinquished so we can get on with grown-up things. ↗

— John Thorn

#big-time #dream #few #finally #get

The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?' ↗

— Robin Williams

#bat #give #give me #got #huddled