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Roger Angell has 22 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Any baseball is beautiful. No other small package comes as close to the ideal design and utility. It is a perfect object…
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I felt what I almost always feel when I am watching a ballgame: Just for those two or three hours, there is…
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Sports are too much with us. Late and soon, sitting and watching - mostly watching on television - we lay waste our…
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This was a new recognition that perfection is admirable but a trifle inhuman, and that a stumbling kind of semi-success can be…
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What the dead don't know piles up, though we don't notice it at first. They don't know how we're getting along without…
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I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I…
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The great thing about catchers is that they do a lot of different things, and they're basically overlooked.
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Friends of mine said later that they had been riveted by a postgame television close-up of Wade Boggs, sitting alone in the…
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Our stories about our own lives are a form of fiction, I began to see and become more insistent as we grow…
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Life is tough and brimming with loss, and the most we can do about it is to glimpse ourselves clear now and…
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Cub fans, by consensus, are the best in baseball. Year after year, in good times and (mostly) bad, they turn out in…
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Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keep hitting, keep the rally alive,…
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When you get that nice celebration coming into the dugout and you're getting your ass hammered by guys, there's no better feeling…
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Initially, it (winning the 1967 American League Pennant) was what you would dream about in Little League. The winning pitcher, being on…
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It's not fear of striking out that makes me reluctant to step up to the plate. It's the fear of getting hit…
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I remember one time I'm batting against the Dodgers in Milwaukee. They lead, 2 - 1, it's the bottom of the ninth,…
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Friends of mine said later that they had been riveted by a postgame television close-up of Wade Boggs, sitting alone in the…
— Roger Angell
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A dugout is much superior to a conventional manufactured canoe because you can get soaking wet without bothering to capsize it.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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They say baseball is a slow game. It sure doesn't seem that way when you're in the dugout. You think you have…
— Mike Quade
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The dugout in the weeds or leaves beneath a backyard willow, the rivulet of a seasonal creek, even the ditch between the…
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So long as we think dugout canoes are the only possibility-all that is real or can be real-we will never see the…
— Sonia Johnson
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A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.
— Ernie Harwell
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Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys…
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When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team's…
— Bob Uecker
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