Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life, we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in. In baseball or out, we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality - we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven.
There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.
A ball player has got to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That is why no boy from a rich family ever made the big leagues.
I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.
Baseball has been very good to me.
The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating or depressing, depending on how you felt about baseball. The same intellectual resources might have cured the common cold, or put a man on Pluto.
In our beautiful memoryWe were all handsomeWe could all singWe all had the heart Of the prettiest girl in townAnd we all hit .300
The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.
Being an umpire is like being a king. It prepares you for nothing.
Beside her, she can feel each breath he draws. How is it possible to be so close to a person and still not know what you are to each other? With baseball, it's simple. There's no mystery to what happens on the field because everything has a label -- full count, earned run, perfect game -- and there's a certain amount of comfort in this terminology. There's no room for confusion and Ryan wishes now that everything could be so straightforward. But then Nick pulls her closer, and she rests her head on his chest, and nothing seems more important that this right here.
There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit, and hit with power.
It was Brooklyn against the world. They were not only complete fanatics, but they knew baseball like the fans of no other city. It was exciting to play there. It was a treat. I walked into that crummy, flyblown park as Brooklyn manager for nine years, and every time I entered, my pulse quickened and my spirits soared.
I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.
If you don't win, you're going to be fired. If you do win, you've only put off the day you're going to be fired.
Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don't even speak to him on the field. Get out there and beat them to death.
When they start the game, they don't yell, Work ball. They say, Play ball.
When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove.
Trying to get a fast ball past Hank Aaron is like trying to get the sun past a rooster.
This is the second day now that I do not know the result of the juegos he thought. But I must have confidence and I must be worthy of the great DiMaggio who does all things perfectly even with the pain of the bone spur in his heel.
Hit em where they ain't.
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