Quote of the day

Posted: December 18, 2018 | Author: | Filed under: Quote of the day | Tags: , , , | Leave a comment

Baseball is like a poker game.

~Herbert H. Paper

Quote of the day

Posted: December 13, 2018 | Author: | Filed under: Quote of the day | Tags: , , , , , | 2 Comments

Pro-rated at 500 at-bats a year that means that for two years out of the fourteen I played, I never even touched the ball.

~Norm Cash

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Norm Cash (Wikipedia)

Quote of the day

Posted: December 8, 2018 | Author: | Filed under: Quote of the day | Tags: , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the gods.

~A. Bartlett Giamatti

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Quote of the day

Posted: December 4, 2018 | Author: | Filed under: Quote of the day | Tags: , , , , , , | Leave a comment

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.

~Jackie Robinson

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Quote of the day

Posted: November 30, 2018 | Author: | Filed under: Quote of the day | Tags: , , , | Leave a comment

It’s crazy how things happen for a reason — I love when players have meetings; I hate when I do. So they had their meeting, and the big part of it was, We don’t quit. We don’t quit.

~Joe Maddon

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Quote of the day

Posted: November 25, 2018 | Author: | Filed under: Quote of the day | Tags: , , , | 2 Comments

Baseball is more than a game. It’s like life played out on a field.

~Juliana Hatfield

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Quote of the day

Posted: November 21, 2018 | Author: | Filed under: Quote of the day | Tags: , , , | 2 Comments

Bad ballplayers make good managers, not the other way around. All I can do is help them be as good as they are.

~Earl Weaver

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Earl Weaver (ESPN.com)

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