#home runs

I just try to get on anyway that I can, hit, hit-by-pitch, walk, home runs, anything. ↗

— Nick Johnson

#anyway #get #hit #home #home runs

I'd get 3-4 cheap home runs every year. You know, little 'wood shots' down either line. They would be pop flies in any other park. But, goodness me, they didn't count the number of long outs! ↗

— Bobby Thomson

#cheap #count #down #either #every

It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had not hit those sixty-one home runs. ↗

— Roger Maris

#fun #had #helluva #hit #home

I take my vote as a salute to the little guy, the one who doesn't hit 500 home runs. I was one of the guys that did all they could to win. I'm proud of my stats, but I don't think I ever got on for. ↗

— Joe Morgan

#did #ever #got #guy #guys

My situation is different from Mark's. I'm not looking for home runs, I'm looking for the playoffs. ↗

— Sammy Sosa

#home #home runs #i #looking #mark

When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs. ↗

— Sammy Sosa

#go #home #home runs #middle #pennant

When did it - When did it become okay for someone to hit home runs and forget how to play the rest of the game? ↗

— Ryne Sandberg

#did #forget #game #hit #home

Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading. ↗

— Babe Ruth

#ballplayer #bit #even #eyes #gave

I am more valuable to my team hitting .330 then swinging for home runs. ↗

— Roberto Clemente

#hitting #home #home runs #i #i am

Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way. ↗

— Ray Dalio

#baseball #batting #call #cards #could