Subject: Sports » Baseball (Page 26)

It's easy to stay in the majors for seven and a half years when you hit .300; but when you hit .216 like me, it's really an accomplishment.

professional baseball player
Baseball Sports

They throw Winfield out at second, but he’s safe.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer
Baseball Misspokements Sports

When I broke in, they didn’t have bats – we just grabbed the branch of a tree.

American baseball pitcher
Age Baseball Sports

It shows what you can accomplish if you stay up all night drinking whiskey all the time.

Restaurant owner
Baseball Sports

Trailing 5-1, the Padres added an insurance run in the eighth inning.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer
Baseball Misspokements Sports

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

professional baseball coach
Baseball Sports

Brooks [Robinson] never asked anyone to name a candy bar after him; in Baltimore, people named their children after him.

sports writer
Baseball Sports

Hey, Lou, it took you 15 years to get out of the game. Sometimes I’m out in 15 minutes.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player
Baseball Sports

The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely.


(1918 – 2002) American baseball player
Baseball Sports

I don’t think we’re the oldest battery, but we’re certainly the ugliest.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager
Baseball Yogi-isms

Listen, ump… how can you sleep with the lights on?

American baseball player
Baseball Sports

[He’s] the ultimate player-to-be-named-later.

(1927 – ) professional baseball player & coach
Baseball Misspokements Sports

That was Benes’ fifth strikeout on the day; he came in with 94, so now he has 104 strikeouts on the year.

(1922 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer
Baseball Misspokements Sports

Gonzo leaps like a giraffe and grabs it.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer
Baseball Misspokements Sports

More than anyone else, he's (Hank Aaron) made me wish I wasn't a manager.

American baseball manager
Baseball Sports

Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf.

(1886 – 1969) American journalist & humorist
Baseball Sports

When you’re 21, you're a prospect; when you’re 30, you’re a suspect.

baseball player
Baseball Sports

I told [GM] Roland Hemond to go out and get me a big name pitcher; he said, ‘Dave Wehrmeister’s got 11 letters… is that a big enough name for you?

White Sox owner
Baseball Misspokements

We need three kinds of pitching: left handed, right handed, and relief.

(1931 – ) American baseball player & manager
Baseball Sports

Those amateur umpires are certainly flexing their fangs tonight.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer
Baseball Misspokements Sports

To last as long as I did with the skills I had, with the numbers I produced, was a triumph of the human spirit.

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