Baseball Quote by Red Smith Download Open image “Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.” — Red Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Baseball Baseball games Baseball player Baseball season Bases Closest Feet Firsts Funny baseball Great baseball Home Home plate Inspirational baseball Major league May Men Mlb Motivational baseball Ninety Perfection Plates Sports
Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved. — Red Smith Copy Share Image
I'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseball. — Eddie Murray Copy Share Image
They should move 1st base back a foot to avoid all those close plays — John Lowenstein Copy Share Image
If somebody on this team actually gets to first base, I'll stand there naked. — Kate O'Brien Copy Share Image
We may have been born on third base, but we worked like we were starting from home plate. You know: batter up. — Tyler Winklevoss Copy Share Image
As a base runner myself, the moment I reached second base I began to fantasize about the potential contact at the plate. Every time… — Gabe Kapler Copy Share Image
It seemed like I always did some great hitting in Brooklyn. The field there was close to the stands. Every time I started walking… — Stan Musial Copy Share Image
Writing is very much like bricklaying. You learn to put one brick on top of another and spread the mortar so thick. — Red Smith Copy Share Image
It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players. — Red Smith Copy Share Image
Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop. — Red Smith Copy Share Image
In entertainment value, the Democratic clambake usually lays it over the Republican conclave like ice cream over parsnips. — Red Smith Copy Share Image
Unlike the normal pattern, I know I have grown more liberal as I've grown older. I have become more convinced that there is room… — Red Smith Copy Share Image
As a ballplayer, (Dizzy) Dean was a natural phenomenon, like the Grand Canyon or the Great Barrier Reef. Nobody ever taught him baseball and… — Red Smith Copy Share Image
I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for… — Red Smith Copy Share Image
Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved. — Red Smith Copy Share Image
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