Subject: Sports » Baseball (Page 5)

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'm probably the only guy who worked for (Casey) Stengel before and after he was a genius.

American baseball player

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(1922 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Spring training should last one day. We'd have the team golf outing and head north.

professional baseball player

I guess I’d better send my fingers to Cooperstown.

baseball player

The Cincinnati Reds are like a drill team; they should be managed by Jack Webb.

American baseball pitcher

I never knew anybody who said they liked doubleheaders except Ernie Banks, and I think he was lying.

professional baseball player & manager

Sure, it's nice to win; but there's only one thing that's important to me and that's the money we're going to get, win or lose.

professional baseball player

An hour after the game, you want to go out and play them again.

(1927 – ) professional baseball player & coach

Wait until Tommy (Lasorda) meets the Lord and finds out that He's wearing pinstripes.

American baseball pitcher

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

They wanted me to play third like Brooks (Robinson) so I did play like Brooks — Mel Brooks.

baseball player

You feel guilty telling the batters to go out there and get a hit. They look at you funny, as is if to say, 'you try it.‘

(1930 – 2013) American baseball manager

I told him I wasn’t tired; he told me, ‘No, but the outfielders sure are.’

professional baseball pitcher

The only problem I really have in the outfield is with fly balls.

(1960 – ) Puerto Rican professional baseball player

Tommy John is so old, he uses Absorbine Senior.

(1952 – ) American sportscaster

I walk into the clubhouse and it's like walking into the Mayo Clinic; we have four doctors, three therapists and five trainers. Back when I broke in, we had one trainer who carried a bottle of rubbing alcohol and by the seventh inning he had drunk it all.

Los Angeles Dodgers’ manager

It ain't nuthin' until I call it.

American baseball umpire

The only man I've ever known who could strut sitting down.

(1860 – 1931) American baseball writer & humorist

Why does everybody stand up and sing ‘Take Me Out to the Ballgame’ when they’re already there?

professional baseball player

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

(1922 – ) American baseball player & manager