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I loved baseball, and I was the best at basketball. Golf was sort of third on my list.
Our economics are not baseball's economics. Our game is not baseball's game. Our owners are not baseball's owners, with one or two exceptions. Our union is not baseball's union. What we do has to be crafted and suited to address hockey, to address the NHL, to address our 30 teams and our 700-plus players.
When I played Little League, I looked up to the big leaguers, too, and collected their baseball cards.
Thrilling, thrilling to see yourself on a baseball card for the first time.
I probably would have never made it through college without baseball, so I'm thankful for that. I really am proud that I got to play on that level.
Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.
It was a breaking period for black people coming into baseball, and how many followed depended on Jackie's conduct. But that's not the case now. What and how I do doesn't mean nearly as much as what and how Jackie did.
In baseball, you can't tell the players without a scorecard, but in political commentary, you need a metaphor.
It's not in baseball's interest or the players' interest to be taking this stance. It's the people's game.
Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm.
In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's.
Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream.
Nicknames are baseball, names like Zeke and Pie and Kiki and Home Run and Cracker and Dizzy and Dazzy.
I played baseball, and that's pretty much it. Basketball came late, this was, basketball was the sport that I tried to master, I kind of mastered baseball, so basketball was one of those things where I wanted to master this game, so that's why I probably play it the way I do.
I was a ball guy. I played basketball, baseball, football. I excelled in football the most. I played running back, wide receiver, safety, kick returner, punt returner.
Babe Ruth made a baseball fan of me. I used to go to Yankee Stadium just to see him come to bat.
I don't wish I did anything differently. The most important thing to me was to play baseball.
I started playing baseball and soccer. Those were my sports on the streets and in school when I was growing up. I didn't even start playing basketball until I was 14.
The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball.
My first year in baseball, there were only one or two reporters. My second year, I got to the Triple-A playoffs, there were four or five. When I came up in 1984, I never saw so many people.
The fundamentals of baseball haven't changed, but how we can teach those fundamentals has. With an e-book, learning can be more rewarding and fun.
You know, it's a different deal - throwing a football as opposed to throwing a baseball.
Just flush it if something bad happens. That's the way I was raised to play baseball.
I've done literally everything there is to do on a baseball field as a pitcher.
Balls and strikes are the basic tenet to everything in baseball. From the perspective of hitting, pitching, offense and defense, it's all about the strike zone and how the battle is waged there between the pitcher and hitter.
Before I joined professional baseball, I started umpiring in San Diego, California. I worked 155 games in a five-month season. For three years in a row, I was working tripleheaders on Saturday and doubleheaders on Sunday.
My real-life athletic career was not very much. I played Little League baseball.
On my wall, along with my favorite football players and baseball players, I had Marlon Brando and Sir Laurence Olivier. These were childhood idols.
We had a normal childhood. I played baseball, and we played violin in orchestras three times a week. I learned more from that than anything else.
Although baseball actually began as a game played largely by urban toughs, its image was soon reconstructed to mirror the country's pastoral myth.
The romantic notion of the clubhouse as a traveling fraternity of working-class heroes - the boys of summer - is perhaps the most potent in all of baseball.
It really gets into your system. All baseball players have this internal clock around February when it starts to kick in and the juices start to flow. I think underestimated how much I was going to miss it.
I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.
With one decision, Judge Sotomayor changed the entire dispute. Her ruling rescued the 1995 baseball season and forced the parties to resume real negotiations.
Today baseball is currently enjoying a run of more than 14 years without interruption, a record that would have been inconceivable in the 1990s.
There's a lot of good Latin personnel out in baseball, coaching, in the front office, and it's nice to be recognized. But I really believe I'm here because of my merit, not because of any race or anything like that.
I've played a baseball player a few times, but in my career I've been blessed to have played a wide range of characters.
Every year we discuss Jackie Robinson Day, which is April 15. We talk about it throughout baseball, promote it throughout baseball.
And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates.
Whatever I contributed to the unique morale of the Cardinals was part of this growth, and so, of course, was my decision to have it out in public with the owners of organized baseball.
In baseball, I was always in control of everything until I let the ball go.
One of the walls of my bedroom was a collage of about 15 years of baseball photos. I would cut out the baseball pictures from every issue and I had this huge montage of thousands of pictures.
In my 20 years of baseball, I've been misquoted three or four times, and for someone who talks as much as I do, that's incredible.
Baseball is just a game, obviously, but it means a lot to a lot of different people.
I was given a gift to throw a baseball. I didn't do anything to deserve that.
God gave me an ability to throw a baseball. He chose me for a reason, and I want to honor Him with that.
You play baseball. You play a lot of games. You win a lot of stuff. You win a World Series. But if that's all you've done, what have you got to show for it?
Ultimately, baseball is just a game. It's not so much how you play, but how you represent him why you're playing.
If you don't like the way the Atlanta Braves are playing then you don't like baseball.
I was playing baseball, and I tripped over first base - I'm very clumsy - and I fell and broke my wrist. That was pretty painful.
It's hard enough to get four hits in a Major League Baseball game, yet alone have them all be the right ones and the right sequence.
I never talked about launch angle, never mentioned launch angle. I know there's a lot of people probably hoping that I would say that because that's just the trend in baseball.
I've definitely been to my fair share of Dodger games growing up. Didn't grow up too far from the stadium. That's where I first learned, first watched major-league baseball.
Individual statistics, plate time and everything tend to come, but the most enjoyment I get out of baseball is actually winning.
I do something that I don't think anyone else does. I warm up before a game. Baseball and basketball players warm up, so why shouldn't the announcer warm up?
When I think about athletes, probably my favorite guest of all time among baseball players was Ted Williams.
I know that baseball players have certain rituals or habits that they develop, because sometimes it becomes somewhat superstitious if they get on a streak and want to do the same thing over and over again.
I played Little League baseball, but I also played basketball. Basketball was my primary sport. When you play basketball seriously, a lot of times, through the summer season, you continue playing. So that replaced me playing baseball.
American history and the history of baseball are bound up together: our racial politics can be described and traced through it.
I've always been like that. I was a tomboy when I was a kid, so I was always playing baseball and basketball and football and stuff as a kid with the boys.
A baseball team is like a band. Because, conceptually, there are no heroes in baseball - there's just the team.
Growing up, I actually wanted to be a professional baseball player instead of a radio DJ. Believe it or not.
As a junior in high school, I had some injury problems with my arm and shoulder from baseball, so I didn't play quarterback as a junior. I played a little wide receiver, linebacker, and safety.
I'm a big baseball fan, and I feel proprietary about the Dodgers. I'm not the owner. I'm not the manager. But I feel passionate about the decisions that they make, and I take it personally when they make decisions I don't like.
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