“When I was a little boy, my dream was to play baseball and leave Cuba.” LittlesPlayDreamBoysBaseballCubaLittle Boys Author:William Levy
“I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be. So I painted only the ideal aspects of it - pictures in which there are no drunken slatterns or self-centered mothers... only foxy grandpas who played baseball with the kids and boys who fished from logs and got up circuses in the backyard.” IfsWorldShouldSelfKidsMotherBoysAspectIdealsDecidedBaseballIdealismCircusSelf CenteredBackyardsGrandpaIdeal World Author:Norman Rockwell
“I like to see Quentin (Roosevelt) practicing baseball. It gives me hope that one of my boys will not take after his father in this respect, and will prove able to play the national game.” GivingPlayAbleFatherGamesBoysProveBaseballGive MeMy BoysQuentin Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“When I joined an all-boys baseball team, my mom wasn't too happy. I proved to her (and to me) that I could do anything I set my mind to.” MindBoysTeamMomBaseballMy MomBaseball Team Author:Mo'ne Davis
“Mr. that boy couldn't hit the ground if he fell out of an airplane.” IfsBoysBaseballAirplane Author:Casey Stengel
“In 1961 somebody could've hit a home run to win the game and the next day the headline was about the M&M boys not hitting a home run. But everyone was real good about it. Instead of getting mad they joked about it.” RealHomeRunningNextGamesWinningBoysBaseballMadHittingNext DayHeadlinesHome Run Author:Mickey Mantle
“Baseball should be the only thing on an eight year old boy's mind.” ShouldYearsMindBoysBaseballEight Author:Aidan Quinn
“Once upon a time, growing up male gave little boys a sense of certainty about the natural order of things. We had short hair, wore pants, and played baseball. Girls had long hair, wore skirts, and, no matter how hard they tried, always threw a baseball just like a girl.” LittlesLongMatterHardOrderGirlNaturalBoysGrowing UpGrowingHairBaseballMalesCertaintyPantsLittle BoysSkirtsOnce Upon A TimeLong HairNatural OrderAbsolute CertaintyShort Hair Author:Kenneth R. Miller
“Spooky things happen in houses densely occupied by adolescent boys. When I checked out a four-inch dent in the living room ceilingone afternoon, even the kid still holding the baseball bat looked genuinely baffled about how he possibly could have done it.” StillsDoneHappensKidsHouseRoomsBoysFourBaseballThings HappenAfternoonInchesAdolescenceBatsLiving RoomSpookyBaffled Author:Mary Blakely
“I'm just a big boy, I'm still just playing cowboys and Indians and astronaut and baseball player and all that stuff that I used to play as a kid.” StillsPlayBigsKidsUsedStuffBoysPlayerBaseballCowboyAstronautBaseball Player Author:Bryan Cranston
“And the other was this: the doctor did want to take off my leg because he thought it was necessary. But you must remember boys in those days were raised for two things: work, and then they made their play; and if you couldn't play baseball and box and play football, why, your life was ended. That was in our boyish minds.” IfsWantMindMadeTwoPlayRememberSportsBoysFootballDoctorsBaseballRaisedBoxesLegsTwo ThingsBoyish Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.” MenGivingGamesNamesChanceBoysBaseballNature Of ManFamous BaseballAmerican Baseball Book:Ted Williams' Hit List Source: Ted Williams' Hit List
“Being a father is the hardest job on the planet, because we don't have parental instincts like women have. You have to learn how to be a father before you even become a father, from a very young age. It's necessary to override what we're told in society a father should be, like if your son falls and scrapes his knee, you got to be tough. Baseball and all that are cool, but it's the tenderness and interactions that are really important. Boys are different; we have to impart that sensibility and that tenderness to them.” IfsShouldImportantDifferentAgeJobsYoungFallFatherBoysPlanetsSonToughBaseballInstinctHardestKneesInteractionTendernessSensibilityYoung AgeImpartParentalYour SonBeing A FatherHardest Job Author:Malik Yusef
“The greatest thing you can do in life is to tell a young boy or girl that they're 'the very best' at something - baseball, reading, art. That gives them the wonderful feeling that they can do anything, which they can!” GivingArtFeelingsYoungLife IsGirlReadingCan DoBoysWonderfulBaseball Author:Charles Kuralt
“It seems women are expected to be so much more than men, which means we have to work that much harder. We're the ones under the microscope. We're expected to sound perfect. We're expected to look perfect all the time. We're expected to be style-setters, whereas the boys roll onto the stage in their jeans, T-shirts and baseball caps.” MenLooksMeanSeemsSoundPerfectBoysStageStyleBaseballHarderExpectedShirtsJeansT ShirtCapsMicroscopesBaseball Caps Author:Carrie Underwood
“Baseball is a boy's game that makes grown men cry.” MenGamesBoysCryBaseballGrown Man Author:Bill Veeck
“I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn’t know. She made me play baseball - I had no desire to do that. I said, ‘Mom, I don’t like direct sunlight, I don’t like bugs, I don’t like grass, and I’d rather be in the house playing with your fabric samples.’” KnowsMadeSaidPlayMotherDesireHouseInterestingBoysMomGayDirectBaseballGrassSunlightFabricBugsSample Author:Nate Berkus
“My life was typical. I played a little Little League baseball. I never wanted for food. I always had shoes. I had a room. There were no great tragedies. There were the typical ups and downs but I wouldn' t say it was at all sad. We were Jewish and living in the suburbs so there was a slightly neurotic bent to it, but I can't point to anything where a boy overcame a tragedy to become a comedian. As my grandmother used to say, 'I can't complain.” LittlesI CanWantedUsedRoomsBoysBaseballTragedyShoesComplainingComedianLeagueGrandmotherTypicalBentMy GrandmotherNeuroticUps & DownsSuburbsLittle LeagueGreat TragedyLittle League Baseball Author:Jon Stewart
“I played no sports well. Because I was a boy in the United States Of America, I was forced into Little League and played horrible Little League baseball, and played football and basketball in school situations where I was forced to.” WellsLittlesStatesSchoolAmericaSportsUnitedSituationBoysUnited StatesFootballBasketballBaseballHorribleLeagueUnited States Of AmericaLittle LeagueLittle League Baseball Author:Ira Glass