Subject: Sports » Baseball (Page 25)

Don’t park in the spaces marked, “Reserved for Umpires.”

professional baseball pitcher

They shouldn’t throw at me; I’m the father of five or six kids.

professional baseball player

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

baseball player

[He’s] the ultimate player-to-be-named-later.

(1927 – ) professional baseball player & coach

Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches.

American baseball pitcher

It couldn't have happened to a greater guy… well, yes, it could have happened to me.

Los Angeles Dodgers’ manager

I was offered a spot in an ad for neutering pets… not exactly what I had in mind.

American baseball pitcher

The first time I ever came into a game there [Yankee Stadium], I got in the bullpen car and they told me to lock the doors.

American baseball pitcher

If the NBA were on channel five and a bunch of frogs making love was on channel four, I’d watch the frogs even if they were coming in fuzzy.

college basketball coach

I challenge anyone, even with a radar machine, to hit that slider.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers and cheating on your income tax.

(1932 – 1997) newspaper columnist

The problem with being Comeback Player of the Year is it means you have to go somewhere before you can come back.

Dutch-born American baseball pitcher

If he'd just tip he cap once, he could be elected mayor of Boston in five minutes.

baseball player, coach & manager

When Neil Armstong first set foot on the moon, he and all the space scientists were puzzled by an unidentifiable white object; I knew immediately what it was… that was a home run ball hit off me in 1933 by Jimmie Foxx.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player

I was thinking about making a comeback, until I pulled a muscle vacuuming.

(1947 – ) professional baseball player

If ever an error had ‘F’ written on it, that grounder did.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

I'm probably the only guy who worked for (Casey) Stengel before and after he was a genius.

American baseball player

The Lord taught me to love everybody, but the last ones I learned to love were the sportswriters.

(1922 – ) American baseball player & manager

Every season has its peaks and valleys. What you have to try to do is eliminate the Grand Canyon.

baseball player

I was never nervous when I had the ball, but when I let go I was scared to death.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player

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