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You should enter a ballpark the way you enter a church.
Fields' reply: He'd think I was a sissy.
I am here to give my players the little push they need, just like they needed long ago, when first learning the art of the swing. All you needed then was a little push, and quickly you were pumping away, flying higher and higher, without any more help from the 'coach.'
All that analysis is well and good, but what I need right now is a left-handed batter who can hit the ball over the shortstop's head.
I enjoyed needling the press. If I didn't enjoy it, I wouldn't have done it. Writers have rarely played, so as a coach, you have antagonistic feelings about some guy writing up the story of the game who's never even attempted to play it.
Make-Out McGuire
He (Sandy Koufax) throws a 'radio ball,' a pitch you hear, but you don't see.
I get tired of hearing my ballplayers bellyache all the time. They should sit in the press box sometime and watch themselves play.
At Tiger Stadium, the dugouts are so low that you walk in and hit your head on the ceiling. People would say, 'Don't feel bad. Ty Cobb did the same thing.'
That Reyes Farrow boy.
You can actually have a pitch button, you know, to get people on pitch.
I don't do press for the sake of press. I tend to only be in the press when I'm introducing something or collaborating on something or whatever it may be, as opposed to inviting someone into my home to photograph my closet for no particular reason.
I would like to thank the press from the heart of my bottom.
Putting Henry at shortstop - it was like taking a painting that had been shoved in a closet and hanging it in the ideal spot. You instantly forgot what the room had looked like before.
The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.
Switching to the outfield was the best break I ever got.
You need to make sure you're going exactly where your guy goes in press coverage. In zone, you can read the quarterback and his eyes a bit to determine where he's going. You don't get the opportunity in press coverage to read the quarterback, so it's all on you.
He [Jock Stein] phoned and asked me to come over and see him one night Hibs were playing at home to Aberdeen. You know Im coming as manager, he said, and I know youll be disappointed. But I want to reciprocate for you making me your deputy by asking you to become my assistant.
I'm working on a new pitch. It's called a strike.
I never mind doing press; it's never bothered me.
The human hand is made complete by the addition of a baseball.
Pique or policy. We would never know.
I don't think there's a position I couldn't play on this field.
Good afternoon ... My name is Lucy ... I'm going to be your right-fielder ... Our special today is a misjudged fly-ball. We also have a nice bobbled ground ball and an exellent late throw to the infield ... I'll be back in a moment to take your order.
Phil picke dup his coffee cup,
Batter up! I want to play with some balls.
The players are under so much duress, it's like duressic park out there!
There's no pressure in baseball. Pressure is when the doctor is getting ready to cut you, take your heart out, and put it on a table.
Carlton Palmer can trap the ball further than I can kick it
I put the ball in play. That's what I want.
Whoever has not experienced the pleasure of taking a young lady to her first game of ball should seize the first opportunity to do so. Her remarks about plays, her opinions of different players and the umpire, and the questions she will ask concerning the game, are all too funny to be missed.
Fenway is the essence of baseball
Elsewhere called the Strom Thurmond Maneuver.) Pujols of course blamed Beli for everything. Sat in the office of the rector and
It's to remind our lads who they're playing for, and to remind the opposition who they're playing against.
(on the 'This Anfield' plaque)
There's a large oak tree in the Newton Centre park playground that is legendary because only a few humans have hit it with a baseball from home plate, and B.J. Novak is among them. And I was there that day.
When I step on the field, you know what you gonna get.
It's hard to field the ball when you have both hands around your throat.
On the Jellicoe road
See the ball; hit the ball.
He (Gil Hodges) fields better on one leg than anybody else I got on two.
Holdsworth is so damned good that I can't cop anything. I can't understand what he's doing. I've got to do this [does two-hand tapping], whereas he'll do it with one hand.
It's (Phil Niekro's knuckleball) like watching Mario Andretti park a car.
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Buju Banton plays
Every single player on the pitch is now in the Birmingham box, apart from two of them.
These ball boys are marvellous. You don't even notice them. There's a left handed one over there. I noticed him earlier .
Parking space - 44 Eaton ... ? He flicked it quickly back
What more can you ask for than to see a ballgame in spring?
The play-maker is the most difficult position because you have to always know where everyone is on the pitch.
Baseball endures at least in part because it is a contemplative sport that delights in nuances. Not a brazen game, eager to sell its thrills cheaply, but rather an understated affair that must be courted if its to be loved.
There's no noise like the Anfield noise - and I love it!
Who is the player and who's being played?
The press is like a big bass, you just stick a hook in their mouth and they'll take it.
At Lockwood & Co., George was famous for not being able to throw or catch with any accuracy. Back in the kitchen at Portland Row, even the casual passing out of fruit or bags of chips became an exercise fraught with danger.
Peter Principle
a brilliant and talented man promoted just one notch over his head.
Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle.
I wish that every player could feel what I've felt in visiting ballparks. The receptions I've received, it's blown me away. It's absolutely remarkable.
Oh, to be a center fielder, a center fielder- and nothing more
Who is his manager? Milton Bradley.
I have a glove. I'll play anywhere.
Pardon me, Mr. Craig, but how are we going to defense Mr. McCovey ... in the upper deck or the lower deck?
Fields are places in books, and books are placed in libraries.
World Class players can lay down the toughest hands and play any two cards at any time without fear. Their reads are impeccable.
Gentlemen, this is the football.
Aw, here is the owner of your sac," Vaughn announced when I appeared. "Take good care of it, darlin. Judd lives a dangerous life and balls are occasionally necessary."
"He can sign them out for special occasions.
To sit in the empty stands of a Florida ball park and hear the sounds of glove leather and chatter;
My buddies and I wrote letters to hundreds of pofessional players, asking for autographed photos. Occasionally one responded, and to get a photo in th email was a reason to strut.
I'm going to play,' says Armand, lacing his fingers and cracking the knuckles. 'A pair of these lads can pump for me.'
'Is this a time for playing?' asks Jean Baptiste. Then, 'You are right. You have never been more so.
Our fielders have to catch a lot of balls, or at least deflect them to someone who can.
We are complete press sluts.
Traditionally, baseball punishes preening. In a society increasingly tolerant of exhibitionism, it is splendid when a hitter is knocked down because in his last at bat he lingered at the plate to admire his home run.
No foteball player be used or suffered within the City of London and the liberties thereof upon pain of imprisonment.
Despite my involvement in difficult and sometimes controversial questions I have received consistent support from the people of Ashfield. They have recognised that it is necessary to take difficult decisions, that newspapers do not always report fairly or accurately.
You come here to Anfield, you stand there and listen to that crowd, and it's the greatest sight in football.
When you come [to a baseball game] in person, you direct your own focus, you know? The TV or the radio men, they might focus on the pitcher when you want to see what first base is doing; and you don't have any choice but to accept it.
Despite the loud booing from Shari and Greg, Bird managed to punch the ball past the shortstop for a single.
"Lucky hit!" Greg yelled, cupping his hands into a megaphone.
Bird pretended not to hear him.
Pete Rose is baseball.
Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
People may remember something I did on the field for a couple of days, maybe a week.
I went to watch the Buzkasgu game taking place on a series of fields - some fallow, some plowed and planted- just to the east of the empty Buddha niches. Buzkashi is a form of polo played with a dead goat instead of a ball.
He (Bob Gibson) pitches as though he's double-parked.
coveralls to the
Thomas Gravesen thinks he's broke his hand, but I told him that you play football with your feet and not your hand.
Infield practice is more mystic ritual than preparation, encouraging the big-leaguer, no less than the duffer in the stands, to believe in spite of all evidence to the contrary, that playing ball is a snap.
Montefusco bare-hands it and throws him out. That grounder will make you a traveling salesman in a hurry!
I don't know if people know how hard it is to get a hit or how hard it is to field a ground ball. It's an easy game in principal, but to actually execute the game it's very difficult.
Never reach for the knuckleball; I just let it come to me.
Pro sports are a tough business
whether you're in baseball, football, or something else. But when you're running around the bases after hitting a home run or jumping up and down after a touchdown, a little boy comes to the surface.
I can play anywhere. First, third, left field, anywhere but Philadelphia.
If I were playing today I'd do what Joe DiMaggio said. I'd go knock on the door at Yankee Stadium and when George Steinbrenner answered I'd say, 'Howdy, pardner.'
Good thing you're not writing the press release.
Its great grass at Anfield, professional grass.
Pressure is trying to make a putt for a $10 bet with only $5 in your pocket.
They should move 1st base back a foot to avoid all those close plays
John Bond has brought in a young left-sided midfield player, who I guess will play on the left side of midfield.
As a kid, I loved to play centerfield. I loved to make diving catches.
What are we out at the park for, except to win?
I remember you explaining the bases to me in this dugout. The best baseball conversation we ever had."
I lean forward and claps my hands together. "Maybe you missed part of the conversation, because I wasn't explaining baseball."
... "I know, but I still enjoyed the demonstration.
interfere with others of less importance, and therefore Mr. P. will not deny that, after having exhibited to his friends and the sporting fraternity in general, his little investment in fancy horseflesh, he made
A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.