Baseball Quotes

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He knew he was Joe DiMaggio, and he knew what that meant to the country. — Lefty Gomez
I became a major league manager in several cities and was discharged. We call it discharged because there was no question I had to leave. — Casey Stengel
Why would you want to stay manager and be second-guessed by me when you can come up into the front-office and be one of the… — George Steinbrenner
People identify with the swashbuckling individuals, not polite little men who field their position well. Sir Galahad had a big following - but I'll bet… — Bill Veeck
Decades after a person has stopped collecting bubble gum cards, he can still discover himself collecting ballparks... their smells, their special seasons, their moods. — Thomas Boswell
Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth… — Mark Twain
It is the same game that Moonlight Graham played in 1905. It is a living part of history, like calico dresses, stone crockery, and threshing… — W. P. Kinsella
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology. — Bernard Malamud
The poet or storyteller who feels that he is competing with a superb double play in the World Series is a lost man. One would… — John Cheever
At a Dodger baseball game in Los Angeles, I asked Will Durant if he was ninety-four or ninety-five. "Ninety-four," he said. "You don't think I'd… — Norman Cousins
All play aspires to the condition of paradise...through play in all its forms...we hope to achieve a state that our larger Greco-Roman, Judeo- Christian culture… — A. Bartlett Giamatti
It's a Little Leaguers game that major leaguers play extraordinarily well, a game that excites us throughout adulthood. The crack of the bat and the… — Mario Cuomo
When you ten, you know more about your team than you ever will know again. — Dan Shaughnessy
I remember the Chillicothe ballplayers grappling the Long Island ball players in a sixteen-inning game ended by darkness. And the shoulders of the Chillicothe players… — Carl Sandburg
Baseball endures at least in part because it is a contemplative sport that delights in nuances. Not a brazen game, eager to sell its thrills… — Kenneth Turan
A narrative voice with conviction is often hard to find. But not in baseball. The minors teach two lost American arts: how to chew tobacco… — Thomas Boswell
Conversation is the blood of baseball. It flows through the game, an invigorating system of anecdotes. Ballplayers are tale tellers who have polished their malarkey… — Thomas Boswell
Baseball is a game dominated by vital ghosts; it's a fraternity, like no other we have of the active and the no longer so, the… — Richard Gilman
Baseball, like Pericles' Athens (or any other good society), is simultaneously democratic and aristrocratic. Anyone can enjoy it, but the more you apply yourself, the… — George Will
More than anything, it's a game of innocence. Politicians may come and go, but they always get booed at the ballpark. — Pete Hamill

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