#home runs

Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading. ↗

— Babe Ruth

#ballplayer #bit #even #eyes #gave

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

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

— Juliana Hatfield

#genius #hits #home #home runs #incredible

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

Major league baseball has asked its players to stop tossing baseballs into the stands during games, because they say fans fight over them and they get hurt. In fact, the Florida Marlins said that's why they never hit any home runs. It's a safety issue. ↗

— Jay Leno

#asked #baseball #because #during #fact