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| Noid
June 1, 2010
2:23:40 PM
Entry #: 3491160
| You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
I'm convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile.
You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.
What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game.... There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.
I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.
When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove.
Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball.
Good pitching will beat good hitting any time, and vice versa.
If a horse can't eat it, I don't want to play on it.
Trying to sneak a pitch past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak a sunrise past a rooster.
You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.
This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.
Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up.
It is well to remember that a Martian observing his first baseball game would be quite correct in concluding that the last two words of the National Anthem are: PLAY BALL!
I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.
There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work.
Baseball statistics are like a girl in a bikini. They show a lot, but not everything.
The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.
and finally
Confucious say: "Baseball wrong - man with four balls cannot walk."
Hope you had fun reading all of these.
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