#baseball

It's a wonderful feeling to be a bridge to the past and to unite generations. The sport of baseball does that, and I am just a part of it. ↗

— Vin Scully

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No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined. ↗

— Paul Gallico

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Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. ↗

— John Leonard

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You can go up in the air and everything is gone. You know, you don't think about baseball. You don't think about anything. It's just something that takes you away from everyday life. I love being in a plane and looking down to see traffic on the freeway. ↗

— Cory Lidle

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Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it. ↗

— Whitey Herzog

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If you've ever been around a group of actors, you've noticed, no doubt, that they can talk of nothing else under the sun but acting. It's exactly the same way with baseball players. Your heart must be in your work. ↗

— Christy Mathewson

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Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile. ↗

— Christy Mathewson

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My mom, she wasn't like a baseball mother who knew everything about the game. She just wanted me to be happy with what I was doing. ↗

— David Ortiz

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Baseball was a dream I gathered more splinters than hits. ↗

— Frank Perdue

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Going back down to the minors is the toughest thing to handle in baseball. ↗