Quotes about Baseball Page
"'Of course, we don't mind you look around,' you'll say. 'It's only twenty dollars per person.' And they'll pass over the money without even looking at it - for it is money they have , and peace they lack.
"They'll walk out to beachers and sit in shirtsleeves in the perfect evening,
or they'll find they have reserved seats somewhere in the grandstands or along one of the baselines -- wherever they sat when they were children and cheered cheered their heroes."
"The momories will be so thick that the outfielders will have to brush them from their faces"
"I don't have to tell you that one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has been erased like a blackboard, only to be rebuilt and
then erased again. But baseball has marked time with America....... It is a living part of history .... It continually reminds us of what once was, like an Indian-head penny in a handful of new coins.
-------- SHOELESS JOE COMES TO IOWA
"Is not baseball a form of writing? Is that not why so many writers love baseball"
"Baseball fulfills the promise America made itself to cherish the individual while recognizing the overarching claims of the group."
"The playing of the GAME is a restatement of the promise that we can all be free, that we can all succed"
"There are no dragons in baseball,only shortstops, but they can emerge from anywhere to cut one down"
The pitcher faces the batter and has to diliver a pitch so good that the batter either guess wrong it being a ball or a strike, misses if he swings at it or hit it and it lands the playing field side of the fence. If the Batter does hit it there are 8 more people who's job is the catch the pitcher's mistakes. As soon as the Pitcher release the ball for it flight to home plate 8 others come into play. Now the batter, He is all alone when batting no one can bat for him and still play the rest of the game. But as soon as the pitcher decides what he is going to throw The batter team mates try and tell the Batter what is coming so he can prepare for it. If he gets to first safely he is again part of a team as it is hard for a runner to score without help in some way from his team mates
"Never mind history, did we win the game"
Dodgers won 1-0 only hit of game, by catcher Johnny Rosboro
So for the first couple of innings he was calling balls and strikes from the bases untitil I got use to it.
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