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"Baseball is dull only to dull minds." Red Barber,
announcer
"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." - Dave Barry
"I remember one game I got five hits and stole
five bases, but none of it
was written down because they forgot to bring the
scorebook to the game that
day."
- James "Cool Papa" Bell, Homestead Grays OF
"They say I was born too soon. I say the doors
were opened too late." -
James "Cool Papa" Bell
"Jimmy Connors plays two tennis matches and winds
up with $850,000, and
Muhammad Ali fights for one bout and winds up with
five million bucks. Me, I
play
190 games--if you count exhibitions -- and I'm
overpaid!" - Johnny Bench
"I was thinking of making a comeback until I
pulled a muscle - vacuuming." -
Johnny Bench, on how he felt about Charlton Fisk
breaking his record for
career
home runs by a catcher.
"An ardent supporter of the home town team should
go to a game prepared to
take offense, no matter what happens." - Robert
Benchley
"In batting practice, I don't think I hit one ball
hard. It was frustrating,
that bat was no good." - Dante Bichette, Colorado
Rockies OF, after Bichette
hit for the cycle after flinging into the stands
the bat he was using for
batting practice
"I didn't get over 1300 walks without knowing the
strike zone." - Wade
Boggs, on being ejected for the first time in the
17th year of his career
for arguing
a called third strike
"That's the nicest thing a returning player could
ever ask for. It shows how
classy the New York Fans are. It gave me a warm
feeling inside." - Wade
Boggs,
on the standing ovation he received on his first
return to Yankee Stadium
(6-3-98)
"This is nothing. I've got nine writers standing
here. McGwire had 200
writers when he had 30 home runs." - Barry Bonds
(SF Giants OF), on being
the first
player to hit 400 home runs and steal 400 bases.
"A lot of long relievers are ashamed to tell their
parents what they do. The
only nice thing about it is that you get to wear a
uniform like everbody
else."
- Jim Bouton, NY Yankees pitcher
"The older they get, the better they were when
they were younger." - Jim
Bouton, on Old Timers Days.
Note: Jim Bouton was invited to return to Yankee
Stadium on July 26, 1998
for his first Old Timers Game after 30 years.
There were bad feelings for
many
years after Jim wrote a book revealing that
ballplayers weren't the angels
that everybody had expected.
"Baseball players are smarter than football
players. How often do you see a
baseball team penalized for too many men on the
field?" - Jim Bouton
A ballplayer spends a good piece of his life
gripping a baseball, and in the
end it turns out that it was the other way around
all the time." - Jim
Bouton,
NY Yankees
"If I stay healthy, I have a chance to collect
three thousand hits and one
thousand errors." - George Brett, Kansas City
Royals 3B
"Yeah, he's in pain except between the first and
ninth innings." - Dave
Bristol (Reds' manager), on Sandy Koufax and his
elbow pains that forced him
into
early retirement.
"Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad and I'll
show you a guy you can beat
every time." - St. Louis' Lou Brock
"No one wants to hear about the labor pains, they
just want to see the
baby." - Lou Brock
"In high school I took a little English, some
science, some hubcaps and some
wheel covers." - William James Gates Brown
(Detroit Tigers OF)
When asked if his curve was helped by the absence
of an index finger,
Mordecai Brown replied, "To know for sure, I'd
have to throw with a normal
hand, and
I've never tried it." - Mordecai "Three-Finger"
Brown
"I can't conceive of either team winning a single
game." - Warren Brown
(Chicago writer), when asked for a prediction as
to the outcome of the 1945
World
Series between the Cubs and the Tigers and an
obvious reference to the
wartime look of both teams.
"I can sit in a ballpark after a game and love
looking at the field.
Everybody's gone, and the ballpark is empty, and
I'll sit there. I sit there
and think,
'Is this as close to heaven as I'm going to get?'
Or, 'If I get to heaven,
will there be baseball?" - Kim Braatz-Voisard,
Silver Bullets' center
fielder,
1997
"Jackie was the greatest competitor I ever saw. He
didn't win. He
triumphed." - Ralph Branca, Dodger pitcher, 1947
Don Baylor, New York Yankees DH, on Billy Martin
and his predecessor Yogi
Berra: "Playing for Yogi is like playing for your
father; playing for Billy
is
like playing for your father-in-law." - Don Baylor
Dale Berra, Pittsburgh Pirate shortstop and son of
noted linguist Yogi
Berra, "The only thing my father & I have in
common is that our similarities
are
different."
"You mix two jiggers of scotch to one jigger of
Metrecal. So far I've lost
five pounds and my driver's license." - Rocky
Bridges, minor league manager,
on his new diet drink
"The players are too serious. They don't have any
fun any more. They come to
camp with a financial adviser and they read the
stock market page before the
sports pages. They concern themselves with
statistics rather than simply
playing the game and enjoying it for what it is."
- Rocky Bridges, from The
Sporting
News, December 12, 1970
"It's a good thing I stayed in Cincinnati for four
years -- It took me that
long to learn how to spell it." - Rocky Bridges
"Coaching third with a pitcher on base is like
being a member of a bomb
disposal squad. The thing could blow up in your
face at any moment." - Rocky
Bridges
"You know when you've got it made? When you get
your name in the crossword
puzzles." - Rocky Bridges
"I prefer fast food." - Rocky Bridges, on why he
won't eat snails
"No little boy in the hospital asked me to hit
one, I didn't promise it to
my kid for his birthday, and my wife will be too
shocked to appreciate it. I
hit it for me." - Rocky Bridges, after hitting his
first home run in two
seasons
"The more I played with them, the more I found
that no one could take a
joke - my batting average." - Rocky Bridges, on
his two seasons with the
Dodgers
and his .237 batting average
"Coaching third with a pitcher on base is like
being a member of a bomb
disposal squad. The thing could blow up in your
face at any moment." - Rocky
Bridges
"The trouble with having a wired jaw is that you
can never tell when you're
sleepy. You can't yawn." - Rocky Bridges
On Jose Gonzalez changing his name to Jose Uribe:
"He was definitely the
player to be named later." - Rocky Bridges
"Kids today are looking for idols, but sometimes
they look too far... They
don't have to look any farther than their home
because those are the people
that
love you. They are the real heroes." - Bobby
Bonilla
"Every member of our baseball team at West Point
became a general: this
proves the value of team sports." - Gen. Omar
Bradley
"They can hollar at the uniform all they want, but
when they hollar at the
man wearing the uniform, they're in trouble." -
Umpire Joe Brinkman
"Nobody's gone after Reds with this much vigor
since Joe McCarthy." - Jeff
Blair of the Montreal Gazette, on the Expos' Shane
Andrews, who hit .471
(16-for-34)
with six homers and 21 RBI against Cincinnati in
August 1996
"The best place to catch a baseball hit by (Mark)
McGwire is definitely not
within the confines of the playing field, or
sometimes even the ballpark.
Other
players dial '1' for long distance. McGwire has to
ask for an international
operator." - Thomas Boswell, writing in the
Washington Post
"Last year [1986], in 415 at bats, he had 27
homers and 80 steals. That's 40
home runs and 120 steals for a full year. [...]
This year [1987], in 93 at
bats, he's hitting .409 with those 12 homers, 27
RBI, 28 runs and 13 steals.
For a full year, that projects to ... well, it
doesn't project to anything.
It's nonsense. More than 70 home runs, 170 RBI,
180 runs, 80 steals. Wayne
Gretzky stats for baseball." - Thomas Boswell on
Eric Davis
"Baseball is religion without the mischief." -
Thomas Boswell
"This is a tough park for a hitter when the air
conditioning is blowing
in." - Bob Boone on the Astrodome in Houston
"There have been only two geniuses in the world:
Willie Mays and Willie
Shakespeare." - Tallulah Bankhead, Actress
(1903-1968)
"Expansion's coming up (in 1998), pitching is thin
and I'm left-handed." -
Former pitcher Tom Browning, who is eyeing a
comeback after retiring last
spring
when he was unable to make the Royals' pitching
staff
"I was hoping we'd be opening at Joe Robbie
Stadium against Elmer Milktoast
and the Gigiville nine. But unfortunately, it's
Bobby Cox and the world
champion
Atlanta Braves in Atlanta." - Florida Marlins
manager John Boles on his
managerial debut
"This is the type of thing that as a kid you dream
about. Something I've
done in my backyard a hundred times. And you never
know if you're going to
get
the opportunity to do it." - Scott Brosius (NY
Yankees 3B) on hitting the
game winning home run in Game 3 of the 1998 World
Series. Brosius went on to
win the 1998 World Series MVP.
"There were only two Bash Brothers (Mark McGwire
and Jose Canseco), and
one's in Boston now. Maybe I can be a Bash
Stepchild." - Oakland's Scott
Brosius,
who has 10 homers, after suggestions he's ready to
become a Bash Brother.
"It's hard to win when you can't keep the ball in
the ballpark. I don't
think they could hit more home runs if you told
them what was coming. I
don't think
they could hit any more if it was batting
practice." - Dusty Baker (SF
Giants manager), on the Giants giving up 24 home
runs in one seven game
stretch.
"The only people I ever felt intimidated by in my
whole life were Bob Gibson
and my Daddy." - Dusty Baker
"For five years in the minor leagues, I wore the
same underwear and still
hit .250, so no, I don't believe in that stuff." -
Dusty Baker, on
stuperstitions
"I'm tired of it. I don't want to hear about it
anymore." - Bill Buckner
"I get tired of hearing my ballplayers bellyache
all the time. They should
sit in the press box sometime and watch themselves
play." - San Diego Padres
president Buzzie Bavasi, 1973
"How can a guy win a game if you don't give him
any runs?" - Robert "Bo"
Belinsky, after losing a game 15-0
"Everybody in the park knows he is going to run,
and he makes it anyway." -
Larry Bowa, on Lou Brock
"He seemed to have an obligation to hit." - Lou
Brock, on Pete Rose
"Why Mr. Summers, don't you know that the spitter
has been outlawed for
years? How would I ever learn to throw one?" -
Thomas Jefferson Davis
Bridges, to
plate umpire Bill Summers, after being accused of
throwing the spitter
"There'll be two buses leaving the hotel for the
park tomorrow. The two
o'clock bus will be for those of you who need a
little extra work. The empty
bus
will leave at five o'clock." - David Bristol,
Milwaukee Brewers manager
"I threw about 90% fastballs and sliders, 50%
fastballs and 50 %
sliders...I'm starting to sound like Mickey
Rivers." - John Butcher
"I exploit the greed of all hitters." - Lew
Burdette
"Let them think I throw it. That gives me an edge
because it is another
pitch they have to worry about." - Lew Burdette,
on throwing the spitball
"They were starting to hit the dry side of the
ball." - Lew Burdette, on
when he knew it was time to retire
"It's designed to break your heart. The game
begins in the spring, when
everything is new again, and it blossoms in the
summer, filling the
afternoons and
evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains
comes, it stops, and leaves
you to face the fall alone." - A Bartlett
Giamatti, Comissioner of Baseball,
1989.
"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."
Rogers Hornsby, Hall of Famer
Hello again, everybody. It's a bee-yooo-tiful day
for baseball. - Harry
Caray
That's the true harbinger of spring, not crocuses
or swallows returning to
Capistrano, but the sound of a bat on the ball.
-Bill Veeck, 1976
"No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically
neat as baseball, with
cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and
result, so cleanly
defined."
- Paul Gallico
"Baseball to me is still the national pastime
because it is a summer game. I
feel that almost all Americans are summer people,
that summer is what they
think of when they think of their childhood. I
think it stirs up an
incredible emotion within people."
- Steve Busby
"You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living,
but you gotta have a lot
of little boy in you."
- Roy Campanella
"Baseball reflected the language of America, and
spiced it, too. Presidents,
politicians, executives, generals and parents
touched all the bases
regularly
so that nobody would be out in left field or
caught off the base in the
greater pursuits of life. If you did it right, you
hit a grand slam home
run; if
not you struck out."
- Joseph Durso
"Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on
yesterday's success or put
its failures behind and start over again. That's
the way life is, with a new
game every day, and that's the way baseball is."
- Bob Feller
"One of the beautiful things about baseball is
that every once in a while
you come into a situation where you want to, and
where you have to, reach
down
and prove something."
- Nolan Ryan
"I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to keep
playing baseball."
- Pete Rose
"When you're in a slump, It's almost as if you
look out at the field and
it's one big glove."
- Vance Law
"The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job,
the numbers say so. You
don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You
don't have to wait for the
reviews."
- Sandy Koufax
"Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed
that I could write
prose-unless it be to have it assumed that I once
pitched a baseball with
distinction."
- Robert Frost
"When we lost I couldn't sleep at night. When we
win I can't sleep at night.
But when you win, you wake up feeling better."
- Joe Torre
"A baseball club is part of the chemistry of the
city. A game isn't just an
athletic contest. It's a picnic, a kind of town
meeting."
- Michael Burke
"If I were playing third base and my mother were
rounding third with the run
that was going to beat us, I'd trip her. Oh, I'd
pick her up and brush her
off and say, 'Sorry Mom, but nobody beats me." --
Leo Durocher
"The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a
round baseball with a round
bat, squarely." -- Ted Williams
"I remember one time going out to the mound to
talk with Bob Gibson. He told
me to get back behind the batter; that the only
thing I knew about pitching
was that it was hard to hit." - Tim McCarver (St.
Louis Cardinals catcher)
"Trying to hit him (Phil Niekro) was like trying
to eat Jell-O with
chopsticks." - Bobby Murcer, Yankees outfielder
"Why certainly I'd like to have that fellow who
hits a home run every time
at bat, who strikes out every opposing batter when
he's pitching, who throws
strikes to any base or the plate when he's playing
outfield and who's always
thinking about two innings ahead just what he'll
do to baffle the other
team.
Any manager would want a guy like that playing for
him. The only trouble is
to get him to put down his cup of beer and come
down out of the stands and
do those things." - Danny Murtaugh, manager
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