There are surprisingly few real students of the game in baseball; partly because everybody, my eighty-three year old grandmother included, thinks they learned all there was to know about it at puberty. Baseball is very beguiling that way.

~Alvin Dark

Alvin Dark, c. 1953 (public domain)

In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that.

~Alvin Dark

A trade tells you exactly which side of the hill you’re on. The terms, the numbers, are like billboards. You don’t have to guess.

~Alvin Dark