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Baseball Quotes by Roger Angell
- Any baseball is beautiful. No other small package comes as close to the ideal design and utility. It is a perfect object for a man's…
- I felt what I almost always feel when I am watching a ballgame: Just for those two or three hours, there is really no place…
- I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to…
- Cub fans, by consensus, are the best in baseball. Year after year, in good times and (mostly) bad, they turn out in vociferous numbers, sustaining…
- Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keep hitting, keep the rally alive, and you have…
- I think I wrote once that baseball in many ways is very much like reading. I said there are more bad books than bad ballgames,…
- Baseball is slovenly and excessive in midsummer, with its onrolling daily cascade of line scores and box scores, shifting statistics, highlights and lowlights, dingers and…
- Losing is the bane and bugbear of every professional athlete's existence, but in baseball the monster seems to hang closer than in other sports, its…
- What really makes baseball so hard is it's retributive capacity for disaster if the smallest thing is done wrong, and the invisible presence of defeat…
- I've been lucky. I've met a lot of baseball people, and I've learned to value people who talk - people who talk well and in…
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- A catcher and his body are like the outlaw and his horse. He's got to ride that nag till it drops. — Johnny Bench
- Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets. — Yogi Berra
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