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“I was all-state in four sports in New Jersey, but sometimes I couldn't get served at a restaurant two blocks from my high school. There were no job opportunities then... the only thing a black youth could aspire to be was a bellboy or a pullman or an elevator operator, or, maybe, a teacher. There was a time when all we had was black baseball.”

“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

“When we are youths in the Dominican, we pick up bats and balls because baseball is part of what we grow up with. The fun feeling you get playing keeps your head up when you encounter difficult times.”

Feelings Fun Grows Difficult Growing Up Youth Picks Baseball Balls Encounters Bats Difficult Times Heads Up

Author:Vladimir Guerrero

“Baseball's time is seamless and invisible, a bubble within which players move at exactly the same pace and rhythms as all their predecessors. This is the way the game was played in our youth and in our fathers' youth, and even back then ... there must have been the same feeling that time could be stopped.”

Way Has Beens Feelings Moving Father Games Player Youth Baseball Invisible Rhythm Pace Bubbles Our Father Predecessors Seamless

Book:Once More Around the Park: A Baseball Reader

Source: Once More Around the Park: A Baseball Reader

“Javy [Baez] grew up in Puerto Rico, played a lot of baseball as a youth, played a lot of winter ball. He's been taught properly and well.”

Wells Youth Taught Grew Grew Up Baseball Balls Winter Puerto Rico Rico

Author:Joe Maddon

“How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?”

“I had the pleasure, as Robin said, to live a childhood dream as many young Americans and Puerto Rican children live that play youth baseball. And I feel honored and very thankful for that opportunity.”

Feels Children Said Play Dream Young Opportunity Sports Pleasure Childhood Youth Baseball Honored Thankfulness Robins Childhood Dreams Very Thankful

Author:Nolan Ryan

“Why?" asked her companion. "Why do you love him when you ought not to?" Edna, with a motion or two, dragged herself on her knees before Mademoiselle Reisz, who took the glowing face between her two hands. "Why? Because his hair is brown and grows away from his temples; because he opens and shuts his eyes, and his nose is a little out of drawing; because he has two lips and a square chin, and a little finger which he can't straighten from having played baseball too energetically in his youth. Because - " "Because you do, in short," laughed Mademoiselle.”

Source: THE AWAKENING - A Solitary Soul (Feminist Classics Series): One Women's Story from the Turn-Of-The-Century American South