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When I was seven years old, my father took me to Fenway Park for the first time, and as I grew up I knew that as a building it was on the level with Mount Olympus, the Pyramid at Giza, the nation's Capitol, the Czar's Winter Palace and the Louvre. Except, of course, that it was better than all those inconsequential places.

Angelo Bartlett "Bart" Giamatti
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7th Commissioner of Baseball, in 1989
Contributed by: Casey Kane

But I'm sure that you'd learn mathematics faster than I'd learn baseball.

When Red Sox catcher Moe Berg offered to teach him baseball in exchange for math tutoring

Albert Einstein
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Nobel Prize Winning Physicist

He pointed to the weathered facade of the Gulf Coast Inn which, when the old park was up, had stood an everlasting distance beyond the outfield wall. He remembered, he said in the husk of voice which he had left, how he'd really got his adjectival shoulders into a swing and had knocked the indelicacy ball against the Anglo-Saxon hotel out there.

Recalling a conversation with Babe Ruth

August 19, 1948
Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith
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Sports Columnist
Red Smith On Baseball - Ivan R. Dee

Contributed by: Jane Richard

Umpire's Heaven is a place where he works third base every game. Home is where the heartache is.

Ron Luciano
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Umpire

In the late 1970s, ABC had a "Monday Night Baseball" show with Al Michaels, Howard Cosell and Bob Uecker. Michaels told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel recently that they were doing a game in Houston when Uecker chided Cosell for saying something outrageous. Cosell responded: "Ueck, you don't have to get so truculent. You do know what truculent means." Uecker, without missing a beat, said: "Of course, Howard. If you had a truck and I borrowed it, it would be a truck you lent."

Robert George "Bob" Uecker
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Catcher / Broadcaster
Contributed by: Ian Shields

Nothing about this great game is trivial. There are simply some compelling bits of baseball knowledge that remain rather obscure.

Describing the meaninglessness of the expression "baseball trivia"

Bob Costas
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Broadcaster

Ball, strike, safe, out, foul, fair doesn't change whether the umpire is tall or short, male or female, brown-eyed or blue-eyed. It never comes up in my mind during the game. I'm out there doing the same job that my partner is. We're doing the same thing that every other crew in the league is. The players are up there with their own agendas. They're trying to get to the big leagues just like we are. They care more about 'What's this guy going to throw me on a 1-2 pitch.' They hate me just like they hate every other umpire.

On being the only female umpire in professional baseball

April, 2001
Ria Cortesio
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Umpire
Class A Midwest League

Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.

Peter Victor Ueberroth
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6th Commissioner of Baseball, 1984-1989

If I played today I'd be a million-dollar player. Is that scary or what?

Robert George "Bob" Uecker
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Catcher / Broadcaster

My friends rooted for the Cardinals and grew up happy and therefore liberal. Because of my early and prolonged exposure to the Cubs, I became morose and conservative.

Explaining the root of his conservatism to the Associated Press

George Will
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Author

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