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Kate Chopin Author
Baseball

"Why?" asked her companion. "Why do you love him when you ought not to?" Edna, with a motion or two, dragged herself on her knees before Mademoiselle Reisz, who took the glowing face between her two hands. "Why? Because his hair is brown and grows away from his temples; because he opens and shuts his eyes, and his nose is a little out of drawing; because he has two lips and a square chin, and a little finger which he can't straighten from having played baseball too energetically in his youth. Because - " "Because you do, in short," laughed Mademoiselle."

Eye Baseball Squares
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Neil Gaiman Author
Baseball

"Have you thought about what it means to be a god?" asked the man. He had a beard and a baseball cap. "It means you give up your mortal existence to become a meme: something that lives forever in people's minds, like the tune of a nursery rhyme. It means that everyone gets to re-create you in their own minds. You barely have your own identity any more. Instead, you're a thousand aspects of what people need you to be. And everyone wants something different from you. Nothing is fixed, nothing is stable."

Mean Giving Up Baseball
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysicist, Science Communicator
Baseball

"Just before I said I wanted to be an astronomer I said I wanted to be a baseball player. I was quite athletic at the time, probably because I was bigger than other kids, and if you're bigger than other kids and you're 11 you win everything."

Kids Winning Baseball
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Harold Reynolds Baseball Player
Baseball

"I really feel like I haven't had a job. Playing [baseball] and then doing television. I watched my mom clean houses and stuff, so that's work."

Jobs Mom Baseball
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Baseball

"[ Chadwick Boseman] was not a baseball player. He spent, I don't know, countless hours, many months, working two sessions a day with professional pro coaches to develop the baseball skills that he needed."

Player Baseball Skills
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Geena Davis Actress
Baseball

"I got cast playing the best baseball player anybody's ever seen. I don't know how to play any sport, including baseball, but I trained really hard. They had these great coaches, and they started saying, "Wow, you have some like really untapped athletic ability.""

Sports Player Baseball
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Katie Uhlaender Athlete
Baseball

"There is a double-standard between men and women. My father was a major league baseball player, and I grew up thinking I could have the same attitude on the field that he did. When I did that in real life, people thought I was a total bi-atch."

Father Attitude Baseball
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George Carlin Comedian, Actor
Baseball

"If two baseball players from the same hometown, on different teams, receive the same uniform number, it is not ironic. It is a coincidence. If Barry Bonds attains lifetime statistics identical to his father's, it will not be ironic. It will be a coincidence."

Father Team Baseball
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Mariah Nelson Musician
Baseball

"For every man with a baseball story - a memory of a moment at the plate or in the field - there is a woman with a couldn't-play-baseball story."

Men Memories Baseball
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George Will Political Commentator, Author
Baseball

"Baseball, like Pericles' Athens (or any other good society), is simultaneously democratic and aristrocratic. Anyone can enjoy it, but the more you apply yourself, the more you enjoy it."

Baseball Enjoy Athens
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George Will Political Commentator, Author
Baseball

"Baseball's best teams lose about sixty-five times a season. It is not a game you can play with your teeth clenched."

Games Team Baseball
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George Will Political Commentator, Author
Baseball

"Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community."

Mind Community Baseball
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