Quote of the day

Posted: June 3, 2020 | Author: | Filed under: Quote of the day | Tags: , , , , , , | Leave a comment

The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.

~Jackie Robinson

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Quote of the day

Posted: May 28, 2020 | Author: | Filed under: 20th Century, Quote of the day | Tags: , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

The ball started climbing from the moment it left the plate.  It was a pop fly with a brand new gland and, though it flew high, it also flew far.

When last seen the ball was crossing the roof of the stand in deep right field at an altitude of 315 feet.  We wonder whether new baseballs conversing in the original package ever remark: “Join Ruth and see the world.”

~Heywood Broun

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Heywood Broun, 1935 (Wikipedia)

Quote of the day

Posted: May 22, 2020 | Author: | Filed under: Quote of the day | Tags: , , , | Leave a comment

I have played baseball on a summer day starting at eight o’clock in the morning, running home at noon for a quick meal, playing again till six o’clock in the evening, and then a run home for a quick meal and again with fielding and batting till it was too dark to see the leather spheroid.

~Carl Sandburg

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Moses’s autograph

Posted: May 19, 2020 | Author: | Filed under: Pop culture | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

This is a lot like that Abraham Lincoln quote about not trusting quotes you find on the internet.

Dilbert Moses autograph

Quote of the day

Posted: May 15, 2020 | Author: | Filed under: Pop culture, Quote of the day | Tags: , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

There are a few guys in baseball fortunate enough to be able to bring it late in their career: Roger Clemens was one, and Nolan Ryan was another one.  And I’d like to be that kind of a writer, who’s still able to bring the fastball.

~Stephen King

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Quote of the day

Posted: May 10, 2020 | Author: | Filed under: Quote of the day | Tags: , , , , , , | Leave a comment

If I didn’t make it in baseball, I won’t have made it workin’. I didn’t like to work.

~Yogi Berra

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Quote of the day

Posted: May 3, 2020 | Author: | Filed under: Pop culture, Quote of the day | Tags: , , , , , | Leave a comment

There’s nothing cooler than a baseball glove.  You put one on and all of a sudden it’s like you’re a wizard.  People might be showering you with rockets or pelting you with eggs, but it doesn’t matter, because everything goes quiet inside the glove.  Maybe a bat looks like a magic wand, but a glove feels like one.

~Jim Naughton, My Brother Stealing Second

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