What are your favorite Baseball quotes?

[Rob D.]

A few of us understand the beauty of these Old Mill red border Bluegrass League cards, and most of the folks could care less.

-- Frank Wakefield

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

"I'll sign anything but a veal cutlet. My ballpoint pen slips on a veal cutlet."

--Casey Stengel

"Our similarities are different."

--Dale Berra, on being compared to his father

"Ken Griffey's grotesquely swollen jaw. Steve Sax and his run-in with the law."

--Terry Cashman

[thekingofclout]

I even kind of dedicated it to you and Oldtix (Rick). Just a few replies as of yet. This might be it for me...no more starting threads for small market teams. Come on Ohio! It's not like the thread was entitled:

If it's Baseball, and it's from Florida, let's see it!

I mean, the Reds. First pro team, Big Red Machine. History coming out the can!

The Tribe... umm, uh, umm, compared to the Cubbies they look like perennial champs.

I don't get it. Maybe I'll ask Leon to just lock the thread, and I learn from my mistake and go on from there.

[David Atkatz]

"The only real game in the world, I think, is baseball."

Babe Ruth

[MVSNYC]

"Ray, people will come Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why they're doing it. They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past. Of course, we won't mind if you look around, you'll say. It's only $20 per person. They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it: for it is money they have and peace they lack. And they'll walk out to the bleachers; sit in shirtsleeves on a perfect afternoon. They'll find they have reserved seats somewhere along one of the baselines, where they sat when they were children and cheered their heroes. And they'll watch the game and it'll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick they'll have to brush them away from their faces. People will come Ray. The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh... people will come Ray. People will most definitely come."

-Terrance Mann (James Earl Jones), Field of Dreams

[roarfrom34]

"The only thing Earl Weaver knows about pitching is that he couldn't hit it"

Jim Palmer

[slidekellyslide]

Not really a quote, but a poem

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In our sundown perambulations of late, through the outer parts of Brooklyn, we have observed several parties of youngsters playing 'base', a certain game of ball....
Let us go forth awhile and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our close rooms....
The game of ball is glorious.
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Walt Whitman

[brickyardkennedy]

Probably not entirely in the spirit of Jimmy's post, but I get a laugh out of Frenchy Bordagaray's response to a question regarding how he felt about his fine for spitting on an umpire:

"Well, it was more than I expectorated".