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Baseball is the blessed silence that comes between Dick Vitale and John Madden.
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Chicago Tribune sports columnist
Chicago Cubs fans are ninety percent scar tissue.
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Author
It looked like a low line drive streaking over the infieled, but it was still climbing when it clipped the very peak of the roofed upper deck in left and took off for the clouds. Three days later a small boy in Bustleton, on the northeast fringe of town, found a baseball with snow on it.
Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith
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Sports Columnist
I saw the ball was game, and always coming back for more. In order that it might set a record I concluded it would be wise to let the ball play until it wept down and out.
William Joseph Klem
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Umpire
HOF 1953
It is a ridiculous way to negotiate a contract and trivializes the whole process and demeans the participants. I'm sorry anyone thought it was a good idea. I look forward to talking with Mrs. Schott about it.
Angelo Bartlett "Bart" Giamatti
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7th Commissioner of Baseball, in 1989
Gene Mauch was my favorite manager. He'd say to me, "Grab a bat and stop this rally."
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Catcher / Broadcaster
They broke it to me gently. The manager came up to me before a game and said they didn't allow visitors in the clubhouse.
Robert George "Bob" Uecker
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Catcher / Broadcaster
When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team’s dugout and they were already in street clothes.
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Catcher / Broadcaster
Whether in a real city or not, when we enter that simulacrum of a city...the ballpark...and we have successfully, usually in a crowd, negotiated the thoroughfares of this special, set-aside city, past the portals, guarded by those who check our fitness and take the special token of admission, past the sellers of food, and vendors of programs, who make their markets and cry their news, and after we ascend the ramp or go through the tunnel and enter the inner core of the little city, we often are struck, at least I am, by the suddenness and fullness of the vision there presented: a green expanse, complete and coherent, shimmering, carefully tended, a garden.
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7th Commissioner of Baseball, in 1989
"Take Time For Paradise: Americans And Their Games"
One thing I remember about him is the way he dusted off the plate. He'd dust it clean and then he'd make this clear outline around the perimeter of the plate, with his brush. Nobody else did that.
Angelo Bartlett "Bart" Giamatti
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7th Commissioner of Baseball, in 1989
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