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He did everything like a textbook says. He had this perfect swing. He ran the bases right. He played the outfield right. Everybody who saw him knew he was the greatest.
It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring when everything else begins again and it blossoms in summer, filling the afternoons and evenings and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it. Rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops
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7th Commissioner of Baseball, in 1989
The pitcher doesn't know where it's going, the hitter can't hit it, the catcher can't catch it, and it's all over the ballpark before it gets here; it's been enough places that I figure sometime on the trip it must have crossed home plate for a strike.
Augie Donatelli
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Umpire
Baseball isn't statistics, it's Joe DiMaggio rounding second base.
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Sportswriter
The myth celebrates American innocence in a good lost time, and Babe Ruth was more than a man. He was a parade all by himself, a burst of dazzle and jingle, Santa Claus drinking his whiskey straight and groaning with a bellyache caused by gluttony.
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Reporter, New York Post
As I was running to first base, I'd be figuring out my batting average. I think that's why I never was a good ballplayer.
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Society for American Baseball Research
Minor League Players Committee
There's going to be illegal gambling from now on until eternity, and I'm going to be part of it. This time, though, I don't want that type of high-profile client. If (Rose) hadn't been a client of mine, I'd still be doing what I was doing.
August, 1999
Ron Peters
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Pete Rose's ex-bookie
Cincinnati Enquirer
I can think of three managers who weren't fired. John McGraw of the Giants who was sick and resigned; Miller Huggins of the Yankees, who died on the job; and Connie Mack of the Athletics, who owned the club.
September 27, 1979
Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith
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Sports Columnist
New York Times
Everybody involved in this profession wants to get to the big leagues. You can't not want to get to the bigs. There is too much stress involved in this job to do it for fun.
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Minor League Umpire
Class A Midwest League
I knew he was out. I had called him safe. I knew it was a mistake, but I thought it was a correctable mistake. If that means eating crow, I'll take mine medium rare.
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