“You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.” - Jim Bouton
"I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice." - Casey Stengel
"This isn't a job. This is a privilege, that's what this is!" - Mike Krukow, TV Commentator, on being at the ballpark each day.
"I've found that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats." -Bill Veeck, Chicago White Sox owner.
"Derek Jeter's accomplishment puts Pete Rose's hits record in perspective. 3,000 hits is phenomenal. 4,000? Freakish!" - Anthony Castrovince via Twitter
"The best possible thing in baseball is winning the World Series. The second best thing is losing the World Series." - Tommy Lasorda
"You teach me baseball and I’ll teach you relativity.... You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball." - Albert Einstein
"Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray."
Joe Garagiola
Without beating a dead horse here, my feeling is they should all get in. If the Hall promises to be a historical tribuite to the game, then not voting in the game’s greatest singles hitter (Rose), one of the greatest five-tool players (Bonds), and the greatest power pitcher (Clemens) then you’re lying to the game. It’s lying by omission. In nonfiction—my written genre—it’s almost as bad as flat-out fabrication.
Bonds and Clemens are alleged cheaters, but by today’s standards so are all the amphetamine poppers of the 70s. The rules change and who they heck knows who was on what and when. Vote ‘em in, don’t ignore it, and keep trying to clean up the game.
I gotta go to work!
I always go back to the Babe who supposedly drank at least a 6-pack during games and I think that was during prohibition. That sure wouldn’t enhance my performance, but to each his own.
According to Floyd Landis, a few shots of whiskey won him a mountain stage in the Tour de France. Funny how people believed that at the time.
Good for the Babe!
Ronni, I just wanted to say thank you for re-blogging my post! I appreciate that very much.
Bill
Glad to do it Bill. I’m always glad when I find a post that says what I want to say. It rather validates my feelings on the subject.