After being traded and retraded by the Red Sox to the White Sox and back -1 find that every five years a man has to change his Sox.
Steve Lyons |
Baseball is a game which consists of tapping a ball with a piece of wood, then running like a lunatic.
H. J. Dutiel |
Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width.
Bill Veeck (1975) |
Baseball players are smarter than [American] football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalised for too many men on the pitch?
Jim Bouton |
Baseball without fans is like Jayne Mansfield without a sweater. Hang on, that can be taken two ways.
Richard Nixon |
Bruce Benedict is so slow he'd finish third in a race with a pregnant woman.
Tommy LaSorda |
James 'Cool Papa' Bell was so fast, one time he hit a line drive right back past my ear. I turned round and saw the ball hit his ass sliding into second.
Leroy 'Satchel' Paige |
On the appearance of Clayton Moore at a Blue Jays home game - It's not very often you get to see the Lone Ranger and Toronto in the same night.
Bobby Bragan |
The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals and three-run homers.
Earl Weaver |
There's three things you can do in a baseball game - you can win, you can lose, or it can rain.
Charles 'Casey' Stengel |
When you say you're a padre, people ask when did you become a parent. When you say you're a cardinal, they tell you to work hard because the next step is pope. But when you say you're a Dodger, everybody knows you're in the Major Leagues.
Tommy LaSorda |
When you win you eat better, sleep better and your beer tastes better. And your wife looks like Gina Lollobrigida.
Johnny Pesky |
You have only two hemispheres in your brain - a left and a right side. The left side controls the right side of your body and the right controls the left half. It's a fact. Therefore, left-handers are the only people in their right minds.
Bill The Spaceman' Lee |
