"Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture."

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"Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture."

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"There is but one game and that game is baseball."

John McGraw, American Baseball Manager

Baseball,

"October, that's when they pay off for playing ball."

Reggie Jackson, American Athlete

Baseball, October

"Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Baseball, Being, Cricket

"It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball."

Floyd Abrams, American Lawyer

Baseball, Learning

"Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species."

Melvin Maddocks, American Journalist

Baseball, Dogs, Environment

"The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play."

Reggie Jackson, American Athlete

Baseball, Play, Reason, World

"I've always been like that. I was a tomboy when I was a kid, so I was always playing baseball and basketball and football and stuff as a kid with the boys."

Catherine Bell, British Model

Baseball, Basketball, Boys, Football

"Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch."

Peter Tork, American Musician

Baseball, Cricket, Skill, World

"I did pretty well at the Sydney Olympics, but those were my first Games."

Marion Jones, American Athlete

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"I wasn't athletic. I played baseball, but I was terrible."

Matt Long, American Actor

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"You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the ambition. So the only way that happens is if you are not pressing to write a book."

Ambition, Want

"The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons."

American, Baseball, Fathers, Sentimentality

"I think that fans are always looking for someone to blame. Wouldn't it be nice if they looked in the mirror?"

Blame, Fans

"If you had to point to one thing that made it less likely that the Red Sox would win the World Series, I would say it was those people that go to Fenway Park to watch the games. And then the media around it."

People, Games, Media, World

"There are several insights at the heart of the A's system that I think are wonderful for baseball. One, that it's a team game. That no one player is going to make that much of a difference to your team, so for god's sake don't go blow a quarter of your budget on one guy."

God, Heart, Baseball, Difference

"There has been this - and it's reflected in the broadcasts - this moronic use of statistics. Which has suggested to everyone who is intelligent the use of statistics is moronic."

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"People who think they know what they are talking about when they talk about baseball include the announcers and all of the sports press - no matter how much evidence you present them to the contrary they will continue to think that what they think is right."

Sports, People, Baseball, Present

"My judgement is not good when I am on a book tour. I am not thinking about it that much. What happens is I will go back home. I have a 4-year-old and a 1-year-old and a wife who is now taking care of them who is wondering where her husband is."

Home, Wife, HusbCare, Now

"Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture."

Baseball, Culture

"Why pay $20 million to Harrison Ford? I don't even understand that. They think they have to do it... If someone puts a price on himself, that suggests he is irreplaceable, then he better find somewhere else to work."

Work,