It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.
It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
Baseball is a game played by idiots for morons.
Baseball reveals character; golf exposes it.
One year I hit .291 and had to take a salary cut. If you hit .291 today, you'd own the franchise.
When I was a kid, my nickname was Mr. Baseball. Because of the stitches.
I was only halfway to the record and it seemed like it took me a long time. I feel like that one will never be broken. That record will never be touched.
One of the things that I noticed in war was how difficult it was for our soldiers, at first, to realize that there are no rules to war. Our men were raised in sports, where a referee runs a football game, or an umpire a baseball game, and so forth.
Baseball is the only sport that lets the managers and coaches go out onto the field and rant and rave
You know you're pitching well when the batters look as bad as you do at the plate.
Today's baseball players are walking conglomerates. They have fantastic salaries, multiple investments, but we had one thing they don't have today, the train ride. We didn't always like it, but those rides kept us close as a team and as friends. Something you can't get on a two hour plane ride that used to take you fifteen hours on a train.
For most baseball fans, maybe oldest is always best. We love baseball because it seizes and retains the past, like the snowy village inside a glass paperweight.
Let the teachers teach English and I will teach baseball. There is a lot of people in the United States who say isn't, and they ain't eating.
Fans, don't fail to miss tomorrow's game.
Bart Giamatti did not grow up (as he had dreamed) to play second base for the Red Sox. He became a professor at Yale, and then, in time president of the National Baseball League. He never lost his love for the Boston Red Sox. It was as a Red Sox fan, he later realized that human beings are fallen, and that life is filled with disappointment. The path to comprehending Calvinism in modern America, he decided, begins at Fenway Park.
Having Willie Stargell on your ball club is like having a diamond ring on your finger.
It's hard to win a pennant, but it's harder losing one.
Beethoven can't really be great because his picture isn't on a bubble gum card.
The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.
They don't know who I was or that I played baseball.
I don't know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.
They got a lot of kids now whose uniforms are so tight, especially the pants, that they cannot bend over to pick up ground balls. And they don't want to bend over in television games because in that way there is no way their face can get on the camera.
Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.
The way our luck has been lately, our fellas have been getting hurt on their days off.
I was lucky enough to have the talent to play baseball. That's how I treated my career. I didn't think I was anybody special, anybody different.
