Subject: Sports » Baseball (Page 11)

Good pitching always stops good hitting and vice versa.

American baseball player

You have to bear in mind that Mr. Autry's favorite horse was named Champion. He ain't ever had one called Runner Up.

(1925 – 2005) American baseball player & manager

Being a White Sox fan meant measuring victory in terms of defeat. A 6-5 defeat was a good day. A big rally was Wally Moses doubling down the right-field line.


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

professional baseball pitcher

Not intentionally, but I sweat easily.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player

This is not even close to what I envisioned a no-hitter would be.

American baseball pitcher

Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

(1941 – ) columnist, commentator & editor

I was the worst hitter ever; I never even broke a bat until last year when I was backing out of the garage.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.

(1919 – 1998) American sportswriter

Well, it looks like the all-star balloting is about over, especially in the National and American Leagues.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

My problem is I lose too many one-run games – 10-9, 8-7.

American baseball pitcher

There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball; unfortunately, neither of them work.

professional baseball coach

Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it.

(1931 – ) American baseball player & manager

Ed, you're the second best umpire in the league… the other twenty-three are tied for first.

American baseball player

My biggest problem in the big leagues is that I can't figure out how to spend forty-three dollars in meal money.

baseball player

They've played on grass and they've played on Astroturf. What they should do is put down a layer of paper in Candlestick Park. After all, the Giants always look good on paper.

(1934 – 2005) American radio personality

The first guy who lays a finger on this blind old man is fined fifty bucks!

(1925 – 2005) American baseball player & manager

Baseball is the belly of society. Straighten out baseball and you'll straighten out the rest of the world.

American baseball pitcher

They said I was such a great prospect that they were sending me to a winter league to sharpen up.; when I stepped off the plane, I was in Greenland.

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

Every five years, a man has to change his Sox.

professional baseball player & broadcaster

It ain't nuthin' until I call it.

American baseball umpire