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Baseball Quotes by George Will
- Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community.
- Baseball is a habit. The slowly rising crescendo of each game, the rhythm of the long season--these are the essentials and they are remarkably unchanged…
- Baseball is Heaven's gift to mortals.
- Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial.
- It (baseball) has no clock, no ties and no Liberal intrusions into the organized progression.
- They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice, icy islands of emotionless calculation. In short, umpires should be acute Republicans.
- It is an old baseball joke that big-inning baseball is affirmed in the Bible, in Genesis. "In the big inning, God created...
- I just got hooked on the radio, the voice of it all. It was my connection to metropolitan America, if you will. Sports, in particularly…
- Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are…
- Twenty years ago rooting for the Yankees was like rooting for IBM.
- 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…
- Traditionally, baseball punishes preening. In a society increasingly tolerant of exhibitionism, it is splendid when a hitter is knocked down because in his last at…
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- I hated to bat against Drysdale. After he hit you he'd come around, look at the bruise on your arm and say,… — Mickey Mantle