Subject: Sports » Baseball (Page 20)

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

I’ve never seen a game like this; every game this year has been like this.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Running a ball club is like raising kids who fall out of trees.

American baseball manager

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

(1922 – ) American baseball player & manager

When a fielder gets the pitcher in trouble, the pitcher has to pitch himself out of the slump he isn’t in.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

You're wrong! I touched second base. I missed third… but I touched second.

American baseball player

It was better than a couple of years I had.

American baseball player

The A's leave after this game for Cleveland. It was only by a 13-12 vote that they decided to go.

Oakland A's announcer

I can see the sun okay, and that's 93 million miles away.

American baseball umpire

When you win you eat better, sleep better and your beer tastes better. And your wife looks like Gina Lollobrigida.

American baseball player

I don’t know what I will do in October. I’ve never hit in this month before. I’m usually playing basketball in October.

American baseball player

Baseball is a game which consists of tapping a ball with a piece of wood, then running like a lunatic.

We've got a problem here. Luis Tiant wants to use the bathroom, and it says no foreign objects in the toilets.

American baseball player

Rookie Wilson was candidate for Mookie of the Year.

(1922 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

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

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Pitching always beats batting — and vice-versa.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

Well, I guess I was just in the right place at the right time.

Dominican baseball player

All the Padres need is a flyball in the air.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Tommy John is so old, he uses Absorbine Senior.

(1952 – ) American sportscaster

Singles hitters drive Fords, home run hitters drive Cadillacs.

(1922 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

They should move first base back one step to eliminate all those close plays.

professional baseball player