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I think that to fully appreciate baseball, it helps to have been born in the U.S.
I played baseball when I was in junior high, but that's the last time I played baseball.
Tennis is interesting. I feel, in terms of stats and stuff, maybe we're a little bit behind the curve, especially me just coming to the States and seeing stats used for, obviously, NFL, NBA, et cetera. Especially in baseball, there's stats galore.
I played baseball, was on the basketball team in high school, did crew at Hofstra, and randomly played ultimate frisbee, too. But none of the organized teams I was on were anywhere near as competitive as the games on the street.
Toughest job in baseball is the general manager. Second toughest is the hitting coach.
It's no secret what's going on in baseball. At least half the players are using steroids.
I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
I had no other interests but baseball because I never thought I'd not make it. No. Never.
I studied Jeet Kune Do and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. On element of Jeet Kune Do is that I had several of years of practice with the kali stick - a stick with a size and length similar to a baseball bat.
I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.
I don't think Hank Greenberg thought of himself as the first Jewish baseball player - he was a baseball player who happened to be Jewish. I'm an artist who happens to be Latin.
I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into.
I grew up with baseball; I played in Little League and went to games with my dad. But I, as I grew up, became more of a basketball fanatic than a baseball one.
I played baseball in college, and then I went to Russia to study acting and played some pro ball over there.
I spent a lot of my childhood growing up in Oklahoma, where I wrestled and played baseball.
The fact is, when I was 15 and a sophomore at high school, I played on the varsity baseball team for the college.
Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young.
Finally, for all of us but a lucky few, the dream of playing big-time baseball is relinquished so we can get on with grown-up things.
In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.
One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write this, something happened that had never happened in baseball before.
In the field of outdoor sports, the American boy is easily capable of devising his own amusements, and until some proof is adduced that baseball is not his invention, I protest against this systematic effort to rob him of his dues.
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
Were it not for Jackie Robinson, Branch Rickey would be remembered, if at all, as a Bible-thumping midwestern Methodist windbag who neither played baseball on Sundays when he was a mediocre catcher for the St. Louis Browns and the New York Highlanders, nor attended games on the Sabbath as a baseball executive.
I sing the 'Star Spangled Banner,' so I can get into football, basketball and baseball games for free.
Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray.
I think that baseball is still the most entertaining game because it's the simplest to watch.
Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished.
Despite reforms in steroid control, serious problems still occur in and out of baseball.
My eight years in Detroit, obviously, were my most successful years managing. I think that Pittsburgh and Detroit are probably very, very similar. We kinda rekindled the fire of baseball in Pittsburgh. We did the exact same thing in Detroit.
Anyone interested in becoming a professional umpire and becoming eligible to work in the minor leagues must attend one of the two umpire schools sanctioned by Major League Baseball.
As a youngster, I played in Little League, Pony League, and all sorts of amateur baseball programs growing up.
The reason I didn't take the baseball route is because they don't have rankings for baseball players.
If they had rankings in baseball, maybe I would have been able to do the math and figure out my chances of being a professional baseball player versus a tennis player. But that was the decision-maker for me, I just thought I was better in tennis.
The perception is that baseball's players' union is protecting players to use steroids and other illegal performance-enhancing drugs.
As much as I want to be like, It's just baseball, I'm just another person,' unfortunately it's not that way.
I'm a big Geena Davis fan. I have a Geena Davis-signed baseball, which is funny because I don't get signatures from most baseball players I meet.
I went to school every day, like everyone else, and I played baseball for my high school team. I was a part of a lot of different activities outside of school.
I only had one player in my 33 years of sports that couldn't be traded. He wore No. 23 - and 45 when he played baseball.
When I was growing up, the first thing I wanted to be was a cowboy. That lasted till I was about ten. Then I wanted to be a baseball player. Preferably shortstop for the New York Yankees.
I'm just a seasonal guy. Basketball, football, baseball, boxing, golf. Give it to me all the time.
Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball.
One of the many things I like about baseball is how it combines individual talent and teamsmanship.
I'm a big sports guy - golf, tennis, baseball, basketball, snowboarding - and I love games.
By the 1880s, baseball was entrenched in the Cape's sandy soil. Semipro teams, commonplace before World War I, were organized into the first Cape Cod League in 1923 - Orleans joined the four original teams five years later. By 1940, the league had foundered on financial shoals and disbanded.
The modern era of Cape Cod baseball dawned in 1963 when the league became a showcase for the collegiate elite.
In the glory days of Orioles, when I was a newbie baseball writer for the Post, the roster of talkers was as good as the everyday lineup. Singy - Ken Singleton - Flanny, and Cakes - the underwear spokesman Jim Palmer - were my go-to guys, occupying stalls along one wall of the shabby chic clubhouse.
I grew up as a baseball player, and given my modest size, it was always clear that I would end up playing in the infield.
I could be 30 pounds heavier if I played football. But I play baseball, and I do Pilates.
I think flexibility in general is something that needs to be reinforced, and not only baseball players but all sports.
I grew up with four brothers. I used to play sports with them. And I liked wearing their clothes. I'd run around in T-shirts, jeans, and baseball caps.
Seven is more than a lucky number or a famous baseball player's uniform. It's the brain's natural shepherd, herding vast amounts of information into manageable chunks.
When I was a boy, I had a baseball team of my own. We played on a vacant lot between Ninetieth and Ninety-second streets. I had a little menagerie of my own, some pigeons, guinea pigs, and so on. On Saturday mornings, I had to take my music lesson. Then the members of my team used to come see my menagerie.
Baseball is a little bigger gamble than most, and the stakes are pretty high.
The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.
It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
If I had been white with the things I did, they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball.
The black press, some liberal sportswriters, and even a few politicians were banging away at those Jim Crow barriers in baseball. I never expected the walls to come tumbling down in my lifetime.
Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.
Basketball's eras are defined by teams - Celtics, Lakers, Bulls - and baseball's epochs are defined by players - Ruth, Robinson, Mantle - but with football, it's the sideline strategists, the nutty professors and top coated Lears.
Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.
I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.
There is nothing I will miss about Japanese baseball. Off the field, I will miss my dog.
When I joined a baseball club, the boys of my own age, and a little older, played in the first nine, those younger than myself played in the second, and those still younger in the third, and I played with them.
I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players, and that's what I tried to do.
For many years, even after Jackie Robinson, baseball was so segregated, really. You just didn't expect us to have a chance to do anything. Baseball was meant for the lily-white.
Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
There are many kids in and out of baseball who think that just because they have some natural talent, they have the world by the tail.
One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.
Baseball is the favorite American sport because it's so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
The peacocking nature of baseball players and athletes in general - you're all kinda competing for who's got the most swagger.
Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.
I could have played another year, but I would have been playing for the money, and baseball deserves better than that.
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