top of page
.png){kind=small}
"You had to pitch in and out. The zone didn't belong to the hitters; it belonged to the pitchers. Today, if you pitch too far inside, the umpire would stop you right there. I don't think it's fair."
Standard
Customized
More
"You look at all the great players that they've had and the potential of playing in Yankee Stadium."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The hardest thing to believe about The Fan is not that Robert De Niro is stalking somebody again but that anyone cares that much about a baseball player."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Why are baseball managers the only coaches who dress up like the players?"
Author Name
Personal Development
"Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Baseball is dull only to dull minds."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I wanted to be a professional baseball player."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended."
Author Name
Personal Development
"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."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"We are all so close. We are godfather to each others' kids. I was the best man at Jesus' wedding."
Friendship
"You had to pitch in and out. The zone didn't belong to the hitters; it belonged to the pitchers. Today, if you pitch too far inside, the umpire would stop you right there. I don't think it's fair."
Baseball
"My manager said it would more effective against left-handed hitters. It seemed to me that was impossible to do without the high leg kick, which I started that day."
Management
"We used to look at Felipe as our guiding man that we listened to."
Man
"When he hit a ground ball to you, you knew you had to make a good throw because he was going to be running."
Running
"Those days were very tough. All my teammates are white, and it was a different time. I couldn't go out to eat with the white players; I had to wait until someone brought something out to the bus. We couldn't stay in the same hotels."
Time
bottom of page