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Baseball Quotes by Michael Lewis
- Some coaches believed they could judge a player's performance simply by watching it. In this they were deeply mistaken. The naked eye was an inadequate…
- It is the nature of being the general manager of a baseball team that you have to remain on familiar terms with people you are…
- Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.
- Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all over…
- People who think they know what they are talking about when they talk about baseball include the announcers and all of the sports press -…
- The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too.
- The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons.
- There are several insights at the heart of the A's system that I think are wonderful for baseball. One, that it's a team game. That…
- The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating or depressing, depending…
- There was but one question he left unasked, and it vibrated between his lines: if gross miscalculations of a person's value could occur on a…
- The Oakland clubhouse is a wonderful place. A lot of these guys feel like rejects. They were rejects and they feel - they can tell…
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- The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans… — Hank Aaron
- 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
- 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