Baseball Quote by Kamila Shamsie

“There were umpires everywhere, men who said who was winning or losing the theoretical battle, who was alive and who was dead. The umpire…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Bottom half of the seventh, Brock's boy had made it through another inning unscratched, one! two! three! Twenty-one down and just six outs to…

— Robert Coover

I never realized that batting a little ball around could cause so much commotion. I now know how (Charles) Lindbergh must have felt when…

— Stan Musial

The pitcher wound up and he flang the ball at the batter. The batter swang and missed. The pitcher flang the ball again and…

— Dizzy Dean

“In the soft grey silence he could hear the bump of the balls: and from here and from there through the quiet air the…

— James Joyce

“There were umpires everywhere, men who said who was winning or losing the theoretical battle, who was alive adn who was dead. The umpire…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Phrases and images from the game filtered through his head... hitting the sweet spot, working the rosin bag, over the bat, going deep, in…

— J.D. Ruskin

“Doug Harvey was a stickler for the rules. When Harvey was in the minor leagues, all the other umpires would go out to a…

— Peter Golenbock

“The sensation of a baseball bat to the face was not any more pleasant when it came from an unexpected direction, without warning.”

— John C. Wright

“Hurry up!” everyone in the room seemed to shriek at the same time. It didn’t matter to us that all over Pittsburgh, in every…

— Philip Beard

I didn't do it (pitch like he did) for show. I did it to get batters out. Players would tell me, 'We can't tell…

— Luis Tiant

“The batter’s box was a cage designed to crush his spirit.”

— Michael Lewis