Baseball
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Batter Up!
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Batty About Baseball
Play Ball!
7th Inning Stretch or Seventh Inning Stretch
Home Run!
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball Jacques Barzun
Knowin' all 'bout baseball is jist 'bout as profitable as bein' a good whittler Kin Hubbard
I lost 24 games my first year with the Mets. You've got to be a pretty good pitcher to lose that many. What manager is going to let you go out there that often? Roger Craig
Ninety percent of the game is half mental Yogi Berra
The story of the curve ball is the story of the game itself. Some would say, of life itself. Martin Quigley
To be good, you've gotta have a lot of little boy in you Roy Campanella
Boys, baseball is a game where you gotta have fun. You do that by winning. So let's have fun. Dave Bristol
Slump? I ain't in no slump. I just ain't hitting. Yogi Berra
Who is this Baby Ruth and what does she do? George Bernard Shaw
I don't care where you are, but the fans only remember your last time at bat Mike Ditka
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended George Bernard Shaw
Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa Casey Stengel
Most ball games are lost, not won Casey Stengel
I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw Willie Mays
I cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a field who are not going to get grass stains on their knees, are the only two people allowed to wear dark trousers Katharine Whitehorn
Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of. Johnny Bench
Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up Bob Lemon
Never let fear of striking out get in your way Babe Ruth
You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and it turns out it was the other way around all the time Jim Bouton
The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love. Bryant Gumbel
You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life Pete Rose
A baseball park is the one place where a man's wife doesn't mind his getting excited over somebody else's curves Brendan Francis
Peanuts and hot dogs are best served with baseball unknown
Pitching is the art of instilling fear Sandy Koufax
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. Roger Hornsby
The game is supposed to be fun. If you have a bad day, don't worry about it. You can't expect to get a hit every game. Yogi Berra
The ump yelled "Safe!" as I slid in
With a mouthful of dirt and my biggest grin unknown
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer Ted Williams
Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball Ken Harrelson
Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball Jim Murray
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
Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player. anonymous
A hot dog at the ball park is better than a steak at the Ritz Humphrey Bogart
The best sound I ever heard in my life was a ball hit with a bat Ted Williams