Subject: Sports » Baseball (Page 2)

On the road when you go downstairs for coffee in your underwear, they throw you out of the kitchen.

baseball player

National League umpires wear inside chest protesters.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Just give me 25 guys on the last year of their contract; I’ll win a pennant every year.

(1934 – 2010) American baseball manager

Baseball players are smarter than [American] football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the pitch?

American baseball pitcher

There are three types of baseball players: those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happens.

Los Angeles Dodgers’ manager

It shows what you can accomplish if you stay up all night drinking whiskey all the time.

Restaurant owner

There’s a shot up the alley… oh, it’s just foul.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

We (the Mets) are a much improved ball club, now we lose in extra innings!

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

If it comes down to taking care of my mother in her old age and taking care of my center fielder in his young age, I hope she understands.

Owner of the Seattle Mariners

Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.

(1926 – 2016) American baseball player, announcer & television host

There’s someone warming up in the bullpen, but he’s obscured by his number.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

That was Benes’ fifth strikeout on the day; he came in with 94, so now he has 104 strikeouts on the year.

(1922 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

The toughest call an umpire has to make is not the half-swing; the toughest call is throwing a guy out of the game after you blew the hell out of the play.

American baseball umpire

Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

Houston has its largest crowd of the night here this evening.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Orel Hershiser is the only Major League pitcher to have two consecutive pronouns in his surname.

American essayist

If you know how to cheat, start now

(1930 – 2013) American baseball manager

I broke in with four hits and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb… it took me only a few days to correct that impression.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

Ninety feet between bases is perhaps as close a man has ever come to perfection.

(1905–1982) American sportswriter

Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom’s apple pie.

(1926 – 1991) American television journalist