As a youngster, I played in Little League, Pony League, and all sorts of amateur baseball programs growing up.
Jim Evans
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I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseball anything, either.
Bob Feller
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Five days after the Tsarnaev brothers blew up Boston's most sacred event, and just 24 hours after one brother was killed and the other was caught, everyone decided that it was OK to play baseball at Fenway again. The game happened on a Saturday afternoon, preceded by an emotional ceremony and many prayers.
Bill Simmons
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When I was a kid, my heroes were not baseball players nor movie stars. My knights in shining armor were film critics.
Rod Lurie
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I had no other interests but baseball because I never thought I'd not make it. No. Never.
Justin Verlander
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In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball.
Wade Boggs
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Sadly, this problem of steroid use is not isolated to baseball.
Jim Sensenbrenner
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I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life.
Brooks Robinson
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I help with everything. My wife and I are a team. I pack my son's lunches, and she takes him to baseball practice when I gotta go train. It's hand-in-hand. There are no labels on our chores.
Bill Goldberg
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I was born to play baseball.
Roberto Clemente
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In baseball, you can hit 40 home runs on a single-A-league team and never get paid a thing. But in a hedge fund, you get paid on your batting average. So you go to the worst league you can find, where there's the least competition.
Julian Robertson
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While professional basketball, football, and baseball players make millions and their salaries represent well over 50% of the billions generated by those sports, the spoils of boxing don't often make it to the boxers.
Tahl Raz
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The perception is that baseball's players' union is protecting players to use steroids and other illegal performance-enhancing drugs.
Jim Bunning
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I grew up an athlete, growing up in Pittsburgh. I played basketball. I played football. I played a little bit of baseball in my earlier years.
Antoine Fuqua
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My dad introduced me to baseball. Then one of my friends asked if I could play on a team; my dad said I could, and I just fell in love with the game.
Bert Blyleven
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That's all baseball is, is numbers; it's run by numbers, averages, percentage and odds. Managers make their decisions based on the numbers.
Rollie Fingers
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In the spring of 1957, Mickey Mantle was the king of New York. He had the Triple Crown to prove it, having become only the 12th player in history to earn baseball's gaudiest jewel. In 1956, he had finally fulfilled the promise of his promise, batting .353, with 52 homers and 130 RBIs. Everybody loved Mickey.
Jane Leavy
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Baseball gets better for whatever reason.
Rafael Palmeiro
BaseballBetterReasonWhateverGets
Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.
Joe Garagiola
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Scouts always think they're right. They're not right all the time. They don't even know how hard it is. Most of those scouts never played baseball.
Asdrubal Cabrera
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I went over a year without playing baseball. At 39, not playing for a year, a year and a half, there were a lot of nights I was saying, 'This is going to be tough.'
Alex Rodriguez
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For generations, minor-league baseball has been seen as the scrappier, sometimes seedier, counterpart to its big-league sibling. Games are often cloaked in strange and sometimes awkward theme nights. Some of the mascots are ragged or downright bizarre. The ballparks are smaller and filled with fewer fans.
Mary Pilon
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Baseball is the greatest thing in the world.
James Gray
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I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.
Rachel Griffiths
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