Quote of the day
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.
~Babe Ruth

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.
~Babe Ruth

I will see maybe 20,000-plus pitches this year. How can I be focused for those 20,000 pitches, not knowing when one might change the game? You can’t worry about yesterday, and you can’t worry about tomorrow. It’s about what is right there in front of you.
~Bobby Witt, Jr.

If you want to survive in New York, you better only read the box scores.
~Billy Martin

What you are thinking, what shape your mind is in, is what makes the biggest difference of all.
~Willie Mays

You can’t win them all.
~Connie Mack

A good umpire is the umpire you don’t even notice. He’s there all afternoon but when the game is over, you don’t even remember his name.
~Ban Johnson

I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.
~Ted Williams

Baseball’s Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ball, the Cubs’ starting pitcher walks away with a 54.00 ERA, the Royals get mathematically eliminated from the pennant race.
~Rob Sheffield

I love baseball. I’ll probably end up one of those old farts who go to spring training in Florida every year and drive from game to game all day.
~Steve Earle

Hello again, everybody. It’s a bee-yoo-tiful day for baseball.
~Harry Caray
