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After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases. Mickey Mantle

Home Me Down Enough Run Bad Running Habit Had Head Him Felt Without Up Hit Pitcher After Figured Home Run Showing Rounding Bases

Baseball's Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ball, the Cubs' starting pitcher walks away with a 54.00 ERA, the Royals get mathematically eliminated from the pennant race. Rob Sheffield

Day First Walks President Out Pennant Throws Opening Opening Day Ball Cubs Era Mathematically Traditions Get Pitcher Race Full Baseball Away Eliminated Royals Starting

What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter. Warren Spahn

Life Better Challenge Between Than Hitter Pitcher After

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy. Babe Ruth

I watched the guy that hits a home run, and he comes across the plate and he points skyward, like thanking for the help from the Almighty to hit the home run. And as he does that, I say to myself, 'God screwed the pitcher.' And I don't know how else you look at it. Bobby Knight

God Myself Home You Else Say Run Guy Points He Almighty Like Know Look Does How Hit Hits Thanking Pitcher Screwed Across Help Home Run Plate Watched

You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out. Carl Yastrzemski

You Sometimes Out Make Always Gets Pitcher

Momentum? Momentum is the next day's starting pitcher. Earl Weaver

Day Pitcher Next Momentum Starting

Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution. Hank Aaron

Other Guessing Throw Execution Hitter Going Pitcher Just Being Successful

When a pitcher's throwing a spitball, don't worry and don't complain, just hit the dry side like I do. Stan Musial

Complain Side Worry Throwing Like Dry Hit Pitcher Just

Preparation is very important. The pitcher is going to do his job and prepare for you, so you as a hitter must do the same. I always watch videotape of pitchers before the game and even sometimes during. Albert Pujols

Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a communist. Alvin Dark

Batter Tries Deliberately Throws Him Hit Any Pitcher Communist Who

'Hard Hit,' a YA collection of poems, explores the country of grief and survival. Mark, a 16-year-old boy and skilled pitcher, must confront the coming death of his beloved father with the help of his friends, family, baseball, and an idiosyncratic belief in God. I used my own experience of my parents' deaths to inform this journey. Ann Turner

Death God Journey Family Survival Grief Experience Father Parents Country Own Mark Collection Must My Own Poems Ya Boy Coming His Deaths Friends Hit Pitcher Inform Confront Skilled Used Hard Help Belief Baseball Beloved

Every pitcher can beat you, it doesn't matter how good you are. Barry Bonds

Good You Matter Every Beat How Pitcher

Fix your eye on the ball from the moment the pitcher holds it in his glove. Follow it as he throws to the plate and stay with it until the play is completed. Action takes place only where the ball goes. Bill Klem

I want the pitcher to know he can't take a pitch off, or I'm going to damage him. Billy Butler

Take He Know Him Off Pitch Going Pitcher Want Damage

The oldest pitcher acquires confidence in his ballclub - he doesn't try to do it all himself. Burleigh Grimes

Confidence Try He Himself His Pitcher Oldest

You can't go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane. Casey Stengel

You Out Take Go Mound Pitcher Cane

I had some great pitchers while in St. Louis. At first, they only 'pitched' the ball fifty feet. They had an allowance of six bases on balls, which was neutralized to some extent by four strikes. Later on, the 'throw' became a free-for-all, overhand, or any style the pitcher chose. Charles Comiskey

Great First Style Strikes Later Some Only Throw Allowance Had Feet Became Ball Balls Louis St. Louis Any Pitcher Pitchers Six Which While Fifty Chose Bases Four Extent

I do not want my name to be presented to the public as an Indian, but as a pitcher. Chief Bender

Indian Name Pitcher Want Public Presented

If you asked a baseball pitcher from the '50s what a middle reliever was, he'd laugh at you. In the '50s, everyone pitched complete games. Chris Mullin

You Complete Everyone Laugh He Pitcher Middle Asked Games Baseball

If you think about a lifestyle short of retirement that lends itself to being a hardcore gamer, there is none better than being a major league starting pitcher. I work once every five days and travel and am alone all the time. So while the other guys were spending their money on the all the cars and jewelry, I bought laptops. Curt Schilling

Work Alone Time You Travel Jewelry Gamer Money Better Car Every Think Other Spending Once About Guys Lifestyle Bought Retirement League Major Days Major League None Am Were Itself Five Than Pitcher Short Being While Lends Laptops Hardcore Starting

A pitcher's got to be good and he's got to be lucky to get a no hit game. Cy Young

Good Game He Got Hit Get Pitcher Lucky

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