2,899 Quotes About Baseball

  • Author Jimmy Breslin
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    So the Mets are a bad ball club. All right, they're the worst ball club you ever saw. So what? The important thing is they are in the National League and they are familiar.

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  • Author Bill Vaughn
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    It's the mathematical potential for a single game to last forever, in a suspended world where no clock rules the day, that aligns baseball as much with the dead as the living.

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  • Author Dirk Lammers
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    A no-hitter secures a pitcher’s spot on an elite yet diverse list that embraces Hall of Famers, struggling journeymen, and wide-eyed rookies.

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  • Author Michael Lewis
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    Analyzing baseball yields many numbers of interest and value. Yet far and away- far, far and away- the most critical number in all of baseball is 3: the three outs that define an inning. Until the third out, anything is possible; after it, nothing is. [Eric Walker]

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  • Author Zack Hample
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    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.

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  • Author Tim Kurkjian
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    Infielder Craig Counsell played parts of sixteen years in the major leagues despite looking like a librarian,

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