Great Baseball Quotes.
Baseball is like joining an enormous family with ancestors and forebears and famous stories and histories. It’s a privilege, it means a lot. The people who tell me they hate baseball or are out of baseball, they sound bitter about it. But I think that they sense what they’re missing. I think that they feel that there’s something their not in on, which is a terrible loss and I’m sorry for them. – Roger Angell
(This is possibly my all-time favorite baseball related quote. It can be found in Ken Burns’ Baseball documentary)
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He told me he puts 70 percent of his weight on his back foot and 40 percent on his front foot. I thought for a second “I’ve got to try that.” – Russell Branyan (on Manny Ramirez)
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I hope you and your family have a wonderful holiday season, because you had a horseshit summer. – Billy Martin’s Christmas card to Umpire Jim Evans.
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If I am remembered by anyone, I would want it to be as a guy who cared about the planet and welfare of his fellow man. And who would take you out at second if the game was on the line. – Bill Lee
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Deion Sanders: I’ll do anything possible to help the team- steal, walk, bunt, anything.
Sportswriter: Get hit by a pitch?
Deion Sanders: No.
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Love it! Great post- great quotes!
Roger Angell’s Baseball work is among the best ever written, by anybody. His books are worth their weight in gold.
Don’t let Deion’s goofy quotes fool you: he was a pedal to the floor player his whole career.
I really do love that you’re a fan of both Lee and Martin. They didn’t like each other but in a lot of ways they’re very similar. That sometimes happens when people are too much alike…they’re like repelling magnets.