“Baseball is a good thing. Always was, always will be.” - Stephen King

 

• If there are any curses left in baseball, they are all on the north side of Chicago.” - Tucker Elliot

• “A man has to have goals – for a day, for a lifetime – and that was mine, to have people say, ‘There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.” - Ted Willams

• “I do what I’ve trained my whole life to do. I watch the ball. I keep my eye on the ball. I never stop watching. I watch it as it sails past me and lands in the catcher’s mitt, a perfect and glorious strike three.” - Barry Lyga

• “The next time someone whines that baseball doesn’t have enough action, you can do two things: first, explain the planning, strategizing, calculating, and deception that place before every pitch. Then quote Hall-of-Fame announcer Red Barber: “Baseball is dull only to dull minds.” - Zack Hample

• “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

• "There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all." - Lou Gehrig

• "Baseball was 100% of my life." - Ty Cobb

• "If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, Jeopardy, I hate to lose." - Derek Jeter

• "I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw." - Willie Mays

• "I've come to the conclusion that the two most important things in life are good friends and a good bullpen." - Bob Lemon

• "As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy." - Garth Brooks

• "Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets." - Yogi Berra

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