Quote of the day
Posted: March 23, 2020 Filed under: Quote of the day | Tags: Baseball, Major League Baseball, MLB, Paul Konerko, quotes, sports Leave a commentYou have to know what you’re doing and where you’re going. For some guys, the answer is just keep doing what you’re doing. For other guys, that might not be the case. It just depends on what kind you are.
~Paul Konerko
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Quote of the day
Posted: March 18, 2020 Filed under: Quote of the day | Tags: Baseball, Maya Angelou, quotes, sports Leave a commentI’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
~Maya Angelou
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Quote of the day
Posted: March 11, 2020 Filed under: Quote of the day | Tags: Baseball, David Halberstam, Joe DiMaggio, John Keats, Ludwig van Beethoven, quotes, sports 2 CommentsDiMaggio’s grace came to represent more than athletic skill in those years. To the men who wrote about the game, it was a talisman, a touchstone, a symbol of the limitless potential of the human individual. That an Italian immigrant, a fisherman’s son, could catch fly balls the way Keats wrote poetry or Beethoven wrote sonatas was more than just a popular marvel. It was proof positive that democracy was real. On the baseball diamond, if nowhere else, America was truly a classless society. DiMaggio’s grace embodied the democracy of our dreams.
~David Halberstam
David Halberstam (Goodreads)
Quote of the day
Posted: March 5, 2020 Filed under: Pop culture, Quote of the day | Tags: Baseball, Bull Durham, movies, quotes, religion, sports 2 CommentsThere are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary. And there are 108 stitches in a baseball. When I learned that, I gave Jesus a chance.
Quote of the day
Posted: February 28, 2020 Filed under: Quote of the day | Tags: Baseball, humor, Major League Baseball, MLB, quotes, sports, Walter Johnson Leave a commentI was the greenest rookie that ever was. One evening I was standing out on the sidewalk when a stranger approached and said, ‘You’re famous already kid. See, they’ve named a hotel for you.’ I looked across the street and sure enough, there was a big illuminated sign that read ‘Johnson Hotel.’ Well, do you know that I was so green that I actually believed the man!
~Walter Johnson
Walter Johnson (Library of Congress)
Quote of the day
Posted: February 22, 2020 Filed under: Quote of the day | Tags: Baseball, books, quotes, Shoeless Joe, sports, W. P. Kinsella Leave a commentI have to absorb the new season like sunlight, letting it turn my winter skin pink and then brown. I must stuff myself with lore and statistics until my fingers ooze balm.
~W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe
Quote of the day
Posted: February 15, 2020 Filed under: Quote of the day | Tags: Baseball, Ernie Banks, Major League Baseball, MLB, quotes, sports, Spring Training 2 CommentsSpring training means flowers, people coming outdoors, sunshine, optimism and baseball. Spring training is a time to think about being young again.
~Ernie Banks
Chicago Mayor’s Office
