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I may be the only golfer never to have broken a single putter, if you don't count the one I twisted into…
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At its best, the US Open demands straight drives, crisp iron shots, brilliant chipping and putting, and strategic position play. Plus the…
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Some things cannont possibly happen, because they are both too improbable and too perfect. The U.S. hockey team cannot beat the Russians…
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When you fall in love with golf, you seldom fall easy. Itʹs obsession at first sight.
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When life is suddenly more serious more of the time, there is also more need for it to be fun at least…
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In and of itself, sports may be trivial, but as a symbol of the American way of life, it has enormous weight.…
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Terrorism drives out all normal human activity before it, defining life in its own sick terms, if it can. So, a baseball…
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Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it's beginning to seem that way.…
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Baseball has traditionally possessed a wonderful lack of seriousness. The game's best player, Babe Ruth, was a Rabelaisian fat man, and its…
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A good umpire, like a good FBI agent, is never noticed if he is doing his job.
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Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.
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I think baseball is a great support to people who have emotional voids, gaps, emotional difficulties. That is to say: all of…
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For a long time, I'd been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth hit 60…
— Bill Bryson
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You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a…
— Bill Bryson
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Don't worry about it. Babe Ruth struck out on occasion, too.
— Walter Annenberg
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Babe Ruth made a great mistake when he gave up pitching.
— Tris Speaker
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Honestly, at one time I thought Babe Ruth was a cartoon character. I really did, I mean, I wasn't born until 1961,…
— Don Mattingly
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He was a parade all by himself, a burst of dazzle and jingle, Santa Claus drinking his whiskey straight and groaning with…
— Jimmy Cannon
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In the 1920s, everyone wanted to be a celebrity. Everyone wanted to be like Babe Ruth or Charles Lindbergh. ... Businessmen, in…
— Unknown Author
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Now they talk on the radio about the record set by (Babe) Ruth, and (Joe) DiMaggio and Henry Aaron. But they rarely…
— Roger Maris
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If I'm compared to Babe Ruth or Willie Mays, that's great. But I'm just going to go out there and be myself.
— Ken Griffey, Jr.
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I can't recall a day this year or last when I did not hear the name of Babe Ruth.
— Hank Aaron
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I don't want people to forget Babe Ruth. I just want them to remember Henry Aaron.
— Hank Aaron
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You can't judge a man by watching him live. . . . I personally watched Babe Ruth at bat three times, and…
— Sterling W Sill
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