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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers. -- Earl Weaver
Nicknames are baseball, names like Zeke and Pie and Kiki and Home Run and Cracker and Dizzy and Dazzy. -- Ernie Harwell
Going home and just seeing what a mess youth baseball was was an eye-opener. I just want to make it a better game. -- Roy Halladay
I am through with baseball forever. I have my farm and my home and enough to take care of me, so why should I work and worry any longer? -- Eddie Plank
As a supporter of the Prostate Cancer Foundation and their Home Run Challenge program, I am extremely grateful for the valuable partnerships and relationships built with Major League Baseball and our affiliates. -- Joe Torre
The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run. -- Hank Aaron
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
I stayed attached to baseball through the kids and through minor league baseball, and I'm very satisfied with the schedule it allows me to have, which means I'm home until my kids go off to college. I value that time. -- Cal Ripken, Jr.
When McGwire started the home run mania, attendance came back. The owners understood that the sudden spike in homers wasn't accidental. All baseball knew it. But baseball is run on money, and home runs meant money. Baseball turned a blind eye. -- Gary Sheffield
Major league baseball has asked its players to stop tossing baseballs into the stands during games, because they say fans fight over them and they get hurt. In fact, the Florida Marlins said that's why they never hit any home runs. It's a safety issue. -- Jay Leno
I lived the baseball life as a kid, with my dad in it. And I lived the baseball life as an adult, because I was in it. When I retired, I wanted the opportunity to be a little bit more flexible and home-based for my kids. -- Cal Ripken, Jr.
I hated baseball. I really didn't like baseball at all until someone decided they were going to pay me... Every year I played in the big leagues, the day the season ended, I called my buddies in West Virginia and said, 'I'll be home tomorrow.' -- John Kruk
We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans. -- A. Bartlett Giamatti
But I'll tell you this, it started with my mother. I have to give her. God bless her and rest her soul. I had a good foundation at home, so when I was able to go off and do these things in baseball there was always support. -- Dave Winfield
Baseball loyalists cite the game's legendary numbers - 300 wins, 500 homers, 3,000 hits - as evidence of the sport's elegance, beauty, and gravitas. What no one mentions is how wretched and painful it is to actually watch a former star gasp and sputter his way toward a legendary number. -- Stephen Rodrick
I love what I do. I'm appreciative and I'm still competitive. I still love baseball, but it doesn't consume me. If I can't do it anymore, then I go home and do something else. It's not the end of the world. It's just the end of your career. -- Dontrelle Willis
Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way. -- Ray Dalio
The difference between a home run and a swing-and-a-miss is, what, an inch and a half? You can throw a great pitch, the guy makes a great swing. And if it's at a guy, it's an out. That's the beauty of baseball, really. There's not just one guy in control. -- Phil Humber
We lived near a playground that had four baseball diamonds on it, and when I got to be 11, 12 years old, I was always over at the ballpark practicing or playing or doing something pertaining to baseball. And when I wasn't doing that, I was bouncing a rubber ball off the steps of my front porch at home. -- Bobby Doerr
Bunting is usually a waste of time. The - generally, yeah, I mean, if you think about it, bunt is the only play in baseball that both sides applaud. The - if the home team bunts, you get a base. The home team applauds because they get an out, and the other team applauds because they get a base. So what does that tell you? -- Bill James
Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts. -- Tommy Lasorda
I don't know what you guys say, but at home, life is way different from baseball. -- Barry Bonds
Finally learning his baseball history, on the topic of Hank Aaron and his home run record -- Alfonso Soriano
It's a funny business. I kind of compare it to baseball. I'm always looking for a home run. -- Billy Mays
Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home. -- Dan Quisenberry
In baseball the object is to go home! And to be safe! - I hope I'll be safe at home! -- George Carlin
In football the object is to march into enemy territory and cross his goal. In baseball the object is to go home. -- George Carlin
My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball; however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs. -- Jim Evans
Baseball should adopt replay, plain and simple. If we can see it at home or on hand-held PDAs, the technology should be used in games. -- Michael Wilbon
There's something magical about a home run. It almost violates the space of the stadium. It's a game of the imagination in some ways. Baseball. -- Alex Gibney
Congratulations to Alex Rodriguez on his 660th home run, milestones in baseball are meant to be broken and I wish him continued success throughout his career. -- Willie Mays
The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them. -- Hank Aaron
Jacks are home runs. So are dongs, bombs, and big flies. Baseball people express their fondness for a thing by thinking up lots of different ways to say it. -- Michael Lewis

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