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“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.”

Giving Play Able Father Games Boys Prove Baseball Give Me My Boys Quentin

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Don Baylor, New York Yankees DH, on Billy Martin and his predecessor Yogi Berra: Playing for Yogi is like playing for your father; playing for Billy is like playing for your father-in-law.”

Law Father New York Baseball Yankees In-laws New York Yankees Predecessors Yogi Father In Law Baylor

Author:Don Baylor

“It took time for the church to come to terms with the ignominy of the cross. Church fathers forbade its depiction in art until the reign of the Roman emperor Constantine.... Now, though, the symbol is everywhere: artists beat gold into the shape of the Roman execution device, baseball players cross themselves before batting, and cancy confectioners even make chocolate crosses for the faithful to eat during Holy Week. Strange as it may seem, Christianity has become a religion of the cross--the gallows, the electric chair, the gas chamber, in modern terms.”

“My father - until the day that my dad died - didn't know how many points you scored in a touchdown. He could say there were nine innings in baseball, but no intricacies of the sport.”

Knows Father Sports Know How Dad Baseball Died My Dad Nine Intricacy Touchdowns Dad Died My Dad Died

Author:Damon Lindelof

“Baseball is fathers and sons. Football is brothers beating each other up in the backyard.”

Father Football Son Brother Baseball Backyards Father And Son

Book:Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball)

Source: Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball)

“all through my childhood, my father kept from me the knowledge that the daily papers printed daily box scores, allowing me to believe that without my personal renderings of all those games he missed while he was at work, he would be unable to follow our team in the only proper way a team should be followed, day by day, inning by inning. In other words, without me, his love for baseball would be forever incomplete.”

Way Should Believe Would Be Father Games Forever Team Childhood Paper Baseball Boxes Score Allowing Papers His Love Printed Incomplete Rendering

Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin

“My dad and all my family were into baseball. His brothers, my mom's brothers, my mom's father. Baseball was just always a part of our family.”

Father Brother Mom Dad My Family Baseball My Dad My Mom Our Family

Author:Mark Teixeira

“Like a lot of people who get into coaching, I was impacted by the people in my life. Certainly my father (John) who coached me in youth league baseball, and my high school coach, Joe Moore, were mentors and major influences.”

People School Father Influence Youth Majors High School Baseball Coaches League Coaching Mentor

Author:Kirk Ferentz

“But wherever I was I played baseball. That's all I lived for. When I sat up on the front seat of that covered wagon next to my father, I was wearing a baseball glove. That showed anybody who was interested where I wanted to go.”

Wanted Next Father Fronts Baseball Sat Seats Covered Gloves Wagons

Author:Smoky Joe Wood

“I'm so opposite of my profession. No one - particularly my mother and father - ever thought I was going to be a boxer because I always felt that football and baseball were too dangerous. I was just such a quiet kid.”

Kids Mother Father Felt Dangerous Football Quiet Opposites Baseball Profession Boxers Mother And Father

Author:Sugar Ray Leonard