#home run

The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them. ↗

— Hank Aaron

#baseball #exciting #fans #games #home

When McGwire started the home run mania, attendance came back. The owners understood that the sudden spike in homers wasn't accidental. All baseball knew it. But baseball is run on money, and home runs meant money. Baseball turned a blind eye. ↗

— Gary Sheffield

#attendance #back #baseball #blind #blind eye

Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.' ↗

— Mickey Mantle

#ever #every #every time #hit #home

Today, there are more opportunities for writers in terms of access to larger success, but it's more difficult to publish a literary novel in the lower ranges. In other words, you almost have to hit a home run. You can hit a triple, maybe, but nobody's interested in a single. ↗

— James Lee Burke

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I am more valuable to my team hitting .330 then swinging for home runs. ↗

— Roberto Clemente

#hitting #home #home runs #i #i am

Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way. ↗

— Ray Dalio

#baseball #batting #call #cards #could

Nicknames are baseball, names like Zeke and Pie and Kiki and Home Run and Cracker and Dizzy and Dazzy. ↗

— Ernie Harwell

#cracker #dizzy #home #home run #like

David Ortiz is a genius. He's incredible to watch. Over and over, he hits home runs that are simply transcendent. ↗

— Juliana Hatfield

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How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball. ↗

— George Herman

#hard #hit #home #home runs #how

I have only one superstition... Touch all the bases when I hit a home run. ↗