Every year . . .

Seven · #1 11-06-2021, 11:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Great quote isn't it. Pete Rose put that sentiment a little more forcefully: "I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball."

I'm sure Rose along with handful other vets still feel the same way. You can always tell the guys obsessed with their craft, would kill to have one more day in the sun. You hear it when they talk about their sport, the passion but also a hint of pain that they can no longer do what they once loved.

sreader3 · #2 11-08-2021, 12:37 AM

�If you don�t know where you�re going, you�ll end up some place else.�

BuzzD · #3 11-08-2021, 04:11 AM

"Baseball is a game of failure". but....

mrreality68 · #4 11-08-2021, 05:39 AM

By far the Yogi isms

Bring back the best memories and the best quotes in baseball IMO

And not a bad catcher either. Lol

Snapolit1 · #5 11-08-2021, 08:40 AM

Some of you may have heard this before, but to get to the former Berra home in Montclair, NJ you literally came to a fork in the road. . . .and had to take it.

I know plenty of people who trick o' treated there as kids. For many years Yogi and Carmen handed out baseball cards on Halloween. Great people.

brian1961 · #6 11-08-2021, 05:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

Some of you may have heard this before, but to get to the former Berra home in Montclair, NJ you literally came to a fork in the road. . . .and had to take it.

I know plenty of people who trick o' treated there as kids. For many years Yogi and Carmen handed out baseball cards on Halloween. Great people.

So Yogi and Carmen handed out baseball cards on Halloween, huh?

Hmmmmm.......

I can't resist this one. Imagine, it's Halloween, 1959. The Berras are graciously giving out these baseball cards Yogi got at his Yoo-Hoo Chocolate Drink factory in Carlstadt, NJ. The trick-or-treating kids smile broadly, but when they see the black 'n white cards, they react with a slight wince of disappointment. Even this card of Mickey Mantle with a blank white strip at the bottom leaves them unimpressed. One kid laments, "Oh, that's that card the Yoo-Hoo people were giving out in late spring - early summer when Mickey was supposed to show up to meet kids and sign autographs. They had these black ' n white cards made of Mantle, and whatda'ya know, he don't show. What a rip! I don't want this card!" And the kid unceremoniously throws it on the wet pavement.

Flash forward 62 years, and now any of the desperately few decent Yoo-Hoo Mickey Mantles will bring about $35,000 in scratch----EASILY.

Montclair, New Jersey dreamin', on nice autumn day!

--- Brian Powell

Bigdaddy · #7 11-08-2021, 08:27 PM

One of my favorites:

"Know what the difference between hitting .250 and .300 is? It's 25 hits. 25 hits in 500 at bats is 50 points, okay? There's 6 months in a season, that's about 25 weeks. That means if you get just one extra flare a week - just one - a gorp... you get a groundball, you get a groundball with eyes... you get a dying quail, just one more dying quail a week... and you're in Yankee Stadium."
-- Crash Davis (Kevin Costner) in Bull Durham

Sometimes the line between good and great is very fine.

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