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Dan-in-Portland wrote this 22 hours ago on |
| "Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray." - Joe Garagiola ...
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Dan-in-Portland wrote this 2 days ago on |
| You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity. No, we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball. - Albert Einstein
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Dan-in-Portland wrote this 3 days ago on |
| I have discovered in twenty years of moving around a ball park, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats. ~Bill Veeck
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Dan-in-Portland wrote this 5 days ago on |
| I don't love baseball. I don't love most of today's players. I don't love the owners. I do love, however, the baseball that is in the heads of baseball fans. I love the dreams of glory of 10-year-olds, the reminiscences of 70-year-olds. The greatest baseball arena is in our heads, what we bring to the games, to the telecasts, to reading newspaper reports. ~Stan Isaacs, "Diamond-Studded Memories," Newsday april 1990
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My AL MVP Vote .....
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Dan-in-Portland wrote this 6 days ago on |
| I have indeed finally decided who I want to win the AL MVP ....... drumroll ....lol YOUK ! What ! it's not 'Lil Dusty !? my case for this ; Look at what he did when Big Papi & Mikey went on the DL . He stepped up and did his job and more . Covering 3rd and 1st base and roaming the outfield for a couple games . He was DH when needed as well . It's one thing for a Bench player to do this when he doesn't play every day . Kevin is an everyday player , and a GREAT one at that...
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Veteran's Day Edition ; Quotes for...
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Dan-in-Portland wrote this 7 days ago on |
| "If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400."
"I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit."
To Carl Yastrzemski "I know - I know all about you. Look, kid, don't ever - ya' understand me? - don't ever let anyone monkey with your swing."
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Dan-in-Portland wrote this 8 days ago on |
| "I just want to play baseball. That's it. I don't care if anybody knows who I am or what people think of me. I just want to stay quiet and relaxed." - Manny Ramirez
This may have been true to the beging of Manny's career , but once he became the hitter he is now , it was on . Suddanly He was "Manny...
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Late Edition ; Quote of the day...
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Dan-in-Portland wrote this 9 days ago on |
| During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball. ~Mickey Mantle, 1970
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Dan-in-Portland wrote this 10 days ago on |
| With those who don't give a damn about baseball, I can only sympathize. I do not resent them. I am even willing to concede that many of them are physically clean, good to their mothers and in favor of world peace. But while the game is on, I can't think of anything to say to them. ~Art Hill
Thought this one was real good , it discribes the way i feel when the game is on . Sorry this Blog isn't complete . Usually i put in Pics and tid-bits about the subject . This one however...
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Dan-in-Portland wrote this 10 days ago on |
| "Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up." ~Bob Lemon
Lemon played his intire 17 year career with the Cleveland Indians as a pitcher , His ERA hovered around 3.25 . His BA was .232 not very impressive , but , then there where no DHs then either , so , i'm guessing it got the job done . Well ,...
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Dan-in-Portland wrote this 11 days ago on |
| I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us. ~Walt Whitman
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Dan-in-Portland wrote this 13 days ago on |
| You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the goddamn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all. ~Earl Weaver
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Dan-in-Portland wrote this 13 days ago on |
| Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's what it feels like when Nolan Ryan's thrown balls by you. ~Reggie Jackson
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Dan-in-Portland wrote this 14 days ago on |
| I don't know why people like the home run so much. A home run is over as soon as it starts.... The triple is the most exciting play of the game. A triple is like meeting a woman who excites you, spending the evening talking and getting more excited, then taking her home. It drags on and on. You're never sure how it's going to turn out. ~George Foster, 1978
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Dan-in-Portland wrote this 17 days ago on |
| Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. ~George F. Will, Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball
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Dan-in-Portland wrote this 19 days ago on |
| If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base. ~Dave Barry
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Dan-in-Portland wrote this 20 days ago on |
| The designated hitter rule is like letting someone else take Wilt Chamberlain's free throws. ~Rick Wise, 1974
Wise played from 1964-1982 mostley in the NL , but , through the 70s he pitched for the Cleveland Indians and then the Boston Red Sox , allowing the most HRs for a season ( '75 ) in his career (34).
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Dan-in-Portland wrote this 21 days ago on |
| People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. ~Rogers Hornsby
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Remembering the Fallen , and the Men...
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Dan-in-Portland wrote this 3 months ago on |
| I am reposting this link because i think it's important for people to see......
please visit this site and light a candle .......May 18, 2008
first let me say , i have KYLIEGIRL , to thank for finding this wonderful...
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