Subject: Sports » Baseball (Page 11)

Some of ours [umpires] is so crooked that they can lay in a berth only when the train’s making a curve.

(1885 – 1933) columnist & writer

Jay Bell is 0-for-6 in this series with 10 homers and 52 RBIs.

(1922 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Tommy John is so old, he uses Absorbine Senior.

(1952 – ) American sportscaster

With the Cardinals everybody would be reading the business section to see what their stocks were doing. You get to this locker room (Pirates) in the morning and everybody is looking at the sports page to see if Hulk Hogan won.

baseball player

If you act like you know what you’re doing, you can do anything you want… except neurosurgery.

professional baseball player

I knew when my career was over; in 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.

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

Richards swings, the ball bounces foul and hits him in the head… no harm done.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Look at him and you'd think he's 16… talk to him and you think he's 26; talk baseball with him, and you'd think he's 36.

(1881 – 1965) American Major League Baseball executive

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

Knuckleball: A curveball that doesn't give a damn.

(1909 – 1973) American sports journalist

The Phillies beat the Cubs today in a doubleheader and that puts another keg in the Cubs’ coffin.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

They expect an umpire to be perfect on opening day and to improve as the season goes on.

American baseball umpire

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

Los Angeles Dodgers’ manager

The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.

professional baseball player & manager

There’ll be a man on the moon before he (Gaylord Perry) hits a home run.

(1922 – ) American baseball player & manager

I never blame myself when I’m not hitting. I just blame the bat, and if it keeps up, I change bats; after all, if I know it isn’t my fault that I’m not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

Kent Abbott is in the on-deck circuit.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

I can see them buying Mauer the city of Duluth.

baseball sports writer & analyst

Football coaches walk across the field after the game and pretend to congratulate the opposing coach; baseball managers head right for the beer.

American sportswriter

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

professional baseball coach

It’s never happened in the World Series competition, and it still hasn’t.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager