Subject: Sports » Baseball (Page 22)

Statistics and records are baseball talk; they keep records like most times sliding into second base on a Tuesday.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

Well, there goes our 26-game hitting streak.

baseball manager

When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove.

professional baseball player

Pudge is so old, they didn’t have history class when he went to school.

professional baseball player & broadcaster

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. 

professional hockey player

I've seldom seen a horny player walk into a bar and not let out exactly what he did for a living.

(1947 – ) professional baseball player

You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game; if that isn’t enough, in the second half, you have to give what’s left.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year… it was my second season in the bigs.

(1935 – ) American baseball player, sportscaster, comedian & actor

That’s one you can tell your grandchildren about – tomorrow.

American baseball player

I’ve never seen a guy on the DL [Disabled List] with pulled fat.

professional baseball player

George 'Babe' Ruth and Old Jack Dempsey, both Sultans of Swat.
One hits where the other people are, the other where they're not.

Scottish snooker player

The Houston Astros are the youngest team in the National League if you judge by age.

American baseball pitcher & announcer

 I heard doctors revived a man who had been dead for 4½ minutes – when they asked him what it was like being dead, he said it was like listening to Yankees announcer Phil Rizzuto during a rain delay.

(1947 – ) comedian & television host

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

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

I had slumps that lasted into the winter.

(1935 – ) American baseball player, sportscaster, comedian & actor

You used to think if the score was 5-0, he'd hit a five-run home run.

professional baseball player

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

When Lew was a twenty game winner for the Milwaukee Braves, people needed three columns for his pitching record: won, lost and relative humidity.

(1905–1982) American sportswriter

I told [GM] Roland Hemond to go out and get me a big name pitcher; he said, ‘Dave Wehrmeister’s got 11 letters… is that a big enough name for you?

White Sox owner

If you hit Polonia 100 fly balls, you could make a movie out of it — Catch 22.

baseball player

The average age of our bench is deceased.

Los Angeles Dodgers’ manager