"For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps." - Willie Mays
"For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps." - Willie Mays
Betterread (03-18-2020),Bunting Bad (03-18-2020)
Great idea for a thread.
Favorite All time baseball quote:
Baseball is like church. Many attend, but few understand - Leo Durocher
Favorite Reds quote:
Most of the places I've been, I've been a main piece of the puzzle. - Eric Davis
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Bunting Bad (03-18-2020),OhioRiverBarge (03-18-2020)
The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it’s a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good and that could be again.”
James Earl Jones
OhioRiverBarge (03-18-2020)
“You know what the difference between hitting .250 and .300 is? It’s 25 hits. Twenty-five hits in 500 at-bats is 50 points, OK? There’s six months in a season. That’s about 25 weeks. That means if you get just one extra flare a week, just one, a gork, a ground ball — a ground ball with eyes! — you get a dying quail, just one more dying quail a week and you’re in Yankee Stadium." -- Crash Davis (Bull Durham)
Btw, this is why guys like Daniel Dorn and Roberto Petagine were never going to make it. They weren't ever going to get that one extra hit a week in the majors.
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Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. -- Carl Sagan (Pale Blue Dot)
Bunting Bad (03-18-2020),OhioRiverBarge (03-18-2020)
From Yogi Berra:
“When you come to a fork in the road…. take it.”
“You can observe a lot by just watching.”
“It ain’t over till it’s over.”
“We made too many wrong mistakes.”
“No one goes there nowadays, it’s too crowded.”
“I always thought the record would stand until it was broken.”
“Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.”
“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.”
“Pair up in threes.”
“You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going, because you might not get there.”
“The future ain’t what it used to be.”
“I usually take a two-hour nap from 1 to 4.”
“If the world was perfect, it wouldn’t be.”
“You don’t have to swing hard to hit a home run. If you got the timing, it’ll go.”
“Ninety percent of the game is half mental.”
“Never answer an anonymous letter.”
“Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel.”
“Take it with a grin of salt.”
“It gets late early out here.”
“I never said most of the things I said.”
Betterread (03-18-2020),Bunting Bad (03-18-2020),Cherokee (03-24-2020),cincinnati chili (03-19-2020),cumberlandreds (03-19-2020),Joeyjection19 (03-20-2020),Norm Chortleton (03-18-2020),OhioRiverBarge (03-18-2020),RedsBaron (03-20-2020),Ron Madden (03-19-2020),Roy Tucker (03-18-2020)
Best yogi quote is a subcategory of its own -
If you ask me anything I don’t know, I’m not going to answer.
"You play ball like a girl." Ham Porter.
Bunting Bad (03-18-2020)
"A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings." - Robert Earl Wilson
"Baseball is dull only to dull minds." - Red Barber
"It ain't nothin' till I call it." - umpire Bill Klem
"I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw." - Willie Mays
"Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things." - Poet, Robert Frost
She used to wake me up with coffee ever morning
Bunting Bad (03-18-2020),Chip R (03-20-2020),cumberlandreds (03-19-2020),mth123 (03-18-2020),Ron Madden (03-19-2020)
“Small things make base men proud.”
- William Shakespeare
Here are three:
"If the Game Goes long Enough, Tony Perez will find a way to win it" - Dave Bristol.
"Two thirds of the earth is covered by water, the rest is covered by Gary Maddox" - Unknown
"Better than his brother Joe, Dominic Dimaggio" - Unknown
All my posts are my opinion - just like yours are. If I forget to state it and you're too dense to see the obvious, look here!
OhioRiverBarge (03-18-2020),Ron Madden (03-19-2020)
Willie Mays after being asked his strategic approach to the game.
"They pitch it, I hit it. They hit it, I catch it."
All my posts are my opinion - just like yours are. If I forget to state it and you're too dense to see the obvious, look here!
RedsBaron (03-20-2020),redsmetz (03-21-2020),Ron Madden (03-19-2020)
People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.
A great hitter isn't born, he's made. He's made out of practice, fault correction, and confidence.
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.
Rogers Hornsby.
1. Pitchers did me a favor when they knocked me down. It made me more determined. I wouldn't let that pitcher get me out. They say you can't hit if you're on your back, but I didn't hit on my back. I got up.
2. The baselines belongs to the runner, and whenever I was running the bases, I always slid hard. I wanted infielders to have that instant's hesitation about coming across the bag at second or about standing in there awaiting a throw to make a tag. There are only 27 outs in a ballgame, and it was my job to save one for my team every time I possibly could.
3. There's absolutely no way you can go barreling into second and dump a guy on a double play, like you should do, when you've been fraternizing with him before a game.
4. If the guys on the bench were as good as the guys you have out there, they'd be out there in first place.
5. I always tried to do the best. I knew I couldn't always be the best, but I tried to be.
Frank Robinson
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