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Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square. ↗

— Joe Schultz

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The reporter asked, "why did you play so hard." "Because there might have been somebody in the stands today who'd never seen my play before, and might never see me again" -Joe DiMaggio ↗

— Joe DiMaggio

#joe-dimaggio #million-dollar-throw #sports #baseball

Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

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More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood. ↗

— Thomas Boswell

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Playing baseball for pay - home run Teaching kids to play the game - priceless ↗

— Jack Perconte

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Vowels were something else. He didn't like them, and they didn't like him. There were only five of them, but they seemed to be everywhere. Why, you could go through twenty words without bumping into some of the shyer consonants, but it seemed as if you couldn't tiptoe past a syllable without waking up a vowel. Consonants, you knew pretty much where they stood, but you could never trust a vowel. To the old pitcher, they were like his own best knuckle ball come back to haunt him. In, out, up, down - not even the pitcher, much much less the batter, knew which way it would break. He kept swinging and missing. ↗

— Jerry Spinelli

#learning-to-read #vowels #baseball

When everyone just shook their heads, he unbuttoned his shirt and, oh good Lord, shrugged out of it, bunching it up to slip beneath her head like a pillow. Don’t look at him, she told herself. Don’t look— She looked. Sweet Jesus. ↗

— Jill Shalvis

#hotty #irresistable #baseball

Cricket is baseball on Valium. ↗

— Robin Williams

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(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action ↗

— John Irving

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... there’s almost nothing worse than spending an entire day anticipating watching a Yankees vs. Red Sox game, only to have the score be 9-0 in the third inning. ↗

— Tucker Elliot

#boston-red-sox #new-york-yankees #baseball