Quote of the day
Posted: August 14, 2018 Filed under: Quote of the day | Tags: Baseball, Gabe Paul, quotes, sports Leave a commentThe great thing about baseball is there’s a crisis every day.
~Gabe Paul
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Quote of the day
Posted: August 9, 2018 Filed under: Quote of the day | Tags: Baseball, Cal Ripken Jr, quotes, sports Leave a commentWhen you’re in the day-to-day grind, it just seems like it’s another step along the way. But I find joy in the actual process, the journey, the work. It’s not the end event.
~Cal Ripken, Jr.
“Cal Ripken, Jr in 1996” by Joe Shlabotnik
Quote of the day
Posted: August 5, 2018 Filed under: Quote of the day | Tags: Baseball, Casey Stengel, humor, quotes, sports Leave a commentI’ll never make the mistake of being 70 again.
~Casey Stengel
Quote of the day
Posted: July 31, 2018 Filed under: Quote of the day | Tags: Babe Ruth, Baseball, quotes, sports 3 CommentsYesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.
~Babe Ruth
US baseball player ‘Babe’ Ruth (George Herman Ruth, 1895 – 1948), during a match. Original Publication: People Disc – HK0045 (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)
Quote of the day
Posted: July 27, 2018 Filed under: Quote of the day | Tags: Baseball, Brooklyn Dodgers, quotes, Robert Merton, sports Leave a commentSchool work and intellectual interests such as music and the arts were not especially important to me while I was growing up, although mathematics, my favorite subject, was fun. Baseball was my first passion: I played sand lot and Little League and rooted for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
~Robert C. Merton
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Posted: July 23, 2018 Filed under: Quote of the day | Tags: Baseball, Hank Aaron, Major League Baseball, MLB, quotes, sports, Tucker Elliot 4 CommentsBy any reasonable standard (i.e. he didn’t cheat), Aaron is one of the greatest sluggers in baseball history—and there shouldn’t even be a debate about who is baseball’s true all-time home run champion (again, no cheating).
~Tucker Elliot
Tucker Elliot (tuckerelliot.com)
Quote of the day
Posted: July 18, 2018 Filed under: 20th Century, Quote of the day | Tags: All-Star Game, American League, Arch Ward, Baseball, history, Major League Baseball, MLB, National League, quotes, sports, Will Harridge, World's Fair Leave a commentArch (Ward) called me one day and asked me to have dinner with him. I didn’t know he had anything in mind other than a sociable dinner until he sprang the All-Star Game idea on me, and I was flabbergasted at first. The idea was sound enough since that was the first year of the World’s Fair in Chicago and Arch wanted to make an All-Star Game one of the highlights. His sales pitch was that it would be a wonderful thing for baseball. I told Arch I would submit the proposition to the owners. The American League owners finally agreed after considerable discussion that it would join strictly as an attraction for the 1933 Fair. At first the National League opposed it, but finally agreed to play the game for only one year. The game turned out to be so wonderful and so well accepted by the fans that the owners quickly agreed to continue the game and it became a solid fixture.
~Will Harridge in Professional Baseball: The First 100 Years (1976)
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