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“Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics. You "take in" a baseball game, something odd to say about a football or basketball game, with the clock running and the bodies flying.”

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Author:Charles Krauthammer

“Baseball is a lot like the ivy-covered wall of Wrigley Field--it gives off a great appearance, but when you run into it, you discover the bricks underneath. At times, it seems that we're dealing with a group of men who aren't much different than others we've all run into over the years, except they wear neckties instead of robes and hoods.”

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Author:Hank Aaron

“Finally learning his baseball history, on the topic of Hank Aaron and his home run record”

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Author:Alfonso Soriano

“There was buried in Ruth humanitarianism beyond belief, an intelligence he was never given credit for, a childish desire to be over-virile, living up to credits given his home-run power - and yet a need for intimate affection and respect, and a feverish desire to play baseball, perform, act and live a life he didn't and couldn't take time to understand.”

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Author:Waite Hoyt

“It's high time something was done for the pitchers. They put up the stands and take down fences to make more home runs and plague the pitchers. Let them revive the spitter and help the pitchers make a living.”

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Author:Casey Stengel

“I don't like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.”

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Author:Casey Stengel

“He can run, steal bases, throw, hit for average, and hit with power like I've never seen. Just don't put him at shortstop.”

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Author:Mickey Mantle

“Casey didn't easily forgive a guy who got doubled up on a hit-and-run play. He didn't see any reason why the runner couldn't take a quick glance back toward the plate to make sure the ball was hit safely.”

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Author:Mickey Mantle

“This year I'd rather lead the league in home runs, runs batted in and hitting.”

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Author:Mickey Mantle

“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.”

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Author:Mickey Mantle

“The hardest thing to do in sports, I think, is to hit a home run.”

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Author:Mickey Mantle

“And that one is gone. A home run for Mickey Mantle! How do you like that?”

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Author:Mel Allen

“You might as well go in and start getting dressed. I'm going to hit his first pitch for a home run.”

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Author:Mickey Mantle

“Even if Mays is given every conceivable break on every unknown - defense, base running, clutch hitting - his performance still would not match Mantle's.”

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Book:The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract

Source: The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract

“Consider developing your whole self with the same raw focus and intensity that you develop a particular skill set. Get focused. Go out, have adventures. Run, jump, skin your knee, fall in love, root loudly for the away team at a baseball game, barely escape a crash of stampeding rhinos, live to see another day. Experience things big and small. Go for a walk. The world is full of wonders.”