"Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror."
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"All I remember about my wedding day in 1967 is that the Cubs lost a double-header."
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"It (baseball) has no clock, no ties and no Liberal intrusions into the organized progression."
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"They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice, icy islands of emotionless calculation. In short, umpires should be acute Republicans."
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"(Barry) Bonds' records must remain part of baseball's history. His hits happened. Erase them and there will be discrepancies in baseball's bookkeeping about the records of the pitchers who gave them up. George Orwell said that in totalitarian societies, yesterday's weather could be changed by decree. Baseball, indeed America, is not like that. Besides, the people who care about the record book - serious fans - will know how to read it. That may be Bonds' biggest worry."
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"In a nation committed to better living through chemistry - where Viagra-enabled men pursue silicone-contoured women - the national pastime has a problem of illicit chemical enhancement. Steroids threaten the health of the 5 percent to 7 percent of players proved, by a mild regime of scheduled tests, to be using them. Steroids also endanger emulative young people. Further, steroids subvert what baseball is selling - fair competition. And they strike at the pleasure of engagement with America's team sport with the longest history."
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"Pro-rated at 500 at-bats a year that means that for two years out of the fourteen I played, I never even touched the ball."
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"I rarely think the market is right. I believe non dividend stocks aren't much more than baseball cards. They are worth what you can convince someone to pay for it."
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"What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, because I grew up playing American baseball."
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"These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don't have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks."
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"We are inclined to think that if we watch a football game or a baseball game, we have taken part in it."
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"If somebody is really trying to take your head off with a baseball bat - I don't know how long you're supposed to stand there and turn the other cheek, so he or she can get a better angle at taking your head off."
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"The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too."
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"When I joined an all-boys baseball team, my mom wasn't too happy. I proved to her (and to me) that I could do anything I set my mind to."
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"I was hitting .360 when I was diagnosed. I didn't forget how to play while I was recovering. I don't know if the cancer is gone for good. I don't think anyone ever knows, but no one is going to steal my joy for as along as I'm able to play baseball."
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"Baseball is a lot like the Army, there aren't many individuals. About the only difference is that baseball players get to stay in nice hotels instead of barracks."
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"Baseball is beautiful....the supreme performing art. It combines in perfect harmony the magnificent features of ballet, drama, art, and ingenuity."
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"Chuck Norris has been known to throw a baseball 100 mph. I've been known to throw Chuck Norris 100 mph."
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"I love baseball. You know, it doesn’t have to mean anything. It’s just very beautiful to watch."
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"I was fortunate enough to have baseball to teach me the values relative to success. The sport gifted me with leadership and team building skills that translate in a relatable way in the world."
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