Baseball Quotes
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An independent Brooklyn probably would have built a new stadium for the Dodgers, so today there might be not just baseball but also the only football team on this side of the Hudson.
Pete Hamill
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In the spring of 1957, Mickey Mantle was the king of New York. He had the Triple Crown to prove it, having become only the 12th player in history to earn baseball's gaudiest jewel. In 1956, he had finally fulfilled the promise of his promise, batting .353, with 52 homers and 130 RBIs. Everybody loved Mickey.
Jane Leavy
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I had a great time with baseball growing up. I was lucky to grow up with it and to learn.
Nick Johnson
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Shooting gives me a good feeling. It is faster than baseball and you are out on one strike.
Ernest Hemingway
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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
Bill Veeck
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Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young.
John Thorn
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A comparison of the average professional baseball salary to the national average salary over the last one hundred years shows that for the first fifty years, 1920-1970, baseball players held a steady multiple of about 3.4 times the national average income.
Douglas Brunt
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Baseball was the darling of all sports back then.
Marion Motley
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I talk to people of different ages, and a guy who's 38 who says, 'I could've played Major League Baseball, but I had this knee injury...' Yeah, probably not. It's a big thing with men and sports, where they think they could have touched that thing.
Christopher Guest
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Baseball has better opening days and All-Star Games than the N.F.L. does. Ours stink.
John Madden
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Whether you want to or not, you do serve as a role model. People will always put more faith in baseball players than anyone else.
Brooks Robinson
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I bet on the game of baseball and I bet on my team, even the mistakes I made, I have to take a different look at someone betting against their own team... that's throwing the game.
Pete Rose