756 Baseball Quotes for You to Enjoy

Relatively, a very small percentage of betting takes place on hockey and even baseball because of the nature of the game and the scoring. Gary Bettman

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When McGwire started the home run mania, attendance came back. The owners understood that the sudden spike in homers wasn't accidental. All baseball knew it. But baseball is run on money, and home runs meant money. Baseball turned a blind eye. Gary Sheffield

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My dad's a bodybuilder. My whole life I've been taught to train the hard way. I believe in earning strength, not buying it. My grandfather raised me old school: In baseball, you work for whatever you get. Gary Sheffield

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Going back down to the minors is the toughest thing to handle in baseball. Gaylord Perry

Down Back Toughest Handle Going Baseball Thing

The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round. Gaylord Perry

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The only real game - I think - in the world is baseball. George Herman

Game World Think Only Real Baseball

You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth. That means the boys. And after you've been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime. George Herman

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Baseball cannot avoid conflicts. Games are played on Good Friday, the most solemn day on the Christian calendar. On Oct. 2, 1978, they played on Rosh Hashana, and Bucky Dent hit one into the screen at Fenway Park. Supply your own moral. George Vecsey

It is hard to imagine the World Series being held in the sweet hazy sunshine of late September rather than the sour night air of late October, but that is precisely what has transpired in baseball over the past 50 years, a deterioration from light to darkness. George Vecsey

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Traditionally, baseball punishes preening. In a society increasingly tolerant of exhibitionism, it is splendid when a hitter is knocked down because in his last at bat he lingered at the plate to admire his home run. George Will

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I just got hooked on the radio, the voice of it all. It was my connection to metropolitan America, if you will. Sports, in particularly baseball then 'cause of its rich sediment of numbers, was one of the first things a young person could peg up with adults on - that is, you could know as much about Jimmy Fox as your father did. George Will

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One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic. H. G. Bissinger

Game Inspirations Writer Becoming Board Baseball

People were not ready to accept me as a baseball player. The easiest part of that whole thing, chasing the Babe's record, was playing the game itself. The hardest thing was after the game was over, dealing with the press. They could never understand. Hank Aaron

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