Day: April 24, 2011

Baseball is a skilled game. It’s America’s game – it, and high taxes. ~Will Rogers (American Humorist)

Hating the New York Yankees is as American as apple pie, unwed mothers and cheating on your income tax. ~Mike Royko (Newspaper Columnist, Chicago)

If God wanted football played in the spring, he would not have invented baseball. ~Sam Rutigliano (Former National Football League Head Coach)

A baseball park is the one place where a man’s wife doesn’t mind his getting excited over somebody else’s curves. ~Brendan Francis

It’s no coincidence that female interest in the sport of baseball has increased greatly since the ballplayers swapped those wonderful old-time baggy flannel uniforms for leotards. ~Mike Royko

Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up. ~Sharon Olds (American Poet)

Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player. ~Author Unknown

Strikeouts are boring – besides that, they’re fascist. Throw some ground balls. More democratic. ~Bull Durham, Movie

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal. ~George F. Will (American Newspaper Columnist, Writer, and Journalist)

Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection. ~Red Smith (American Sportswriter)

Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose-unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction. ~Robert Frost (Poet)