“I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good - I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn't preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing.” WellsPlayWantedLeftHurtPlayerMusicianBaseballBallsFingersPreacherBaseball PlayerMuddy Author:Muddy Waters
“I enjoy baseball more than anything and would like to be involved with it forever, but the reality is your survival is determined by how well you compete, not by your fondness for the game.” WellsRealityGamesEnjoyForeverInvolvedSurvivalBaseballDeterminedFondness Author:Sadaharu Oh
“One has to bear in mind that during my childhood and adolescence, I suffered the repression of the Somoza dictatorship in every way: economically, socially, as well as at the hands of the police -- because if we went out on the street to play baseball, for example, the police would come and beat us up and put us in prison.” IfsWayMindWellsPlayHandsStreetsChildhoodExampleBearsBeatsBaseballPolicePrisonDictatorshipAdolescenceRepression Author:Daniel Ortega
“Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.” BelieveWellsAmericaLawNationsLevelsFieldsAnd LoveBaseballLibraryVersionsCustomsRitualPrivileged Author:A. Bartlett Giamatti