A good umpire, like a good FBI agent, is never noticed if he is doing his job.
Thomas BoswellHow soon do you think it is? Time will tell me. When it's autumn, the leaves fall. When the time comes, I'll know it.
[Responding to a question about when he will start throwing his slider in his attempt to comeback from a career-ending stroke.]
Tags: time baseball destiny comebacks overcoming-adversity right-time pitcher
We try to take it from one at-bat to the next, ya know it’s easier said than done, but all put together it looks good in the end.
Evan LongoriaThe naked pinch hitter takes only one thing to the plate: his raw, and somewhat irrational, confidence in himself. That this confidence is so unreasonable adds to its dignity.
Thomas BoswellTags: baseball pinch-hitting
On days like this, baseball would make Michael as happy as it ever did. No umpires. No coaches. No rules except the ones you made up.
Mike LupicaTags: baseball
Baseball has traditionally possessed a wonderful lack of seriousness. The game's best player, Babe Ruth, was a Rabelaisian fat man, and its most loved manager, Casey Stengel, spoke gibberish. In this lazy sport, only the pitcher pours sweat. Then he takes three days off.
Thomas BoswellTags: baseball
One of the supreme paradoxes of baseball, and all sports, is that the harder you try to throw a pitch or hit a ball or accomplish something, the smaller your chances are for success. You get the best results not when you apply superhuman effort but when you let the game flow organically and allow yourself to be fully present. You'll often hear scouts say of a great prospect, "The game comes slow to him." It mean the prospect is skilled and poised enough to let the game unfold in its own time, paying no attention to the angst or urgency or doubt, funnelling all awareness to the athletic task at hand.
R.A. DickeyTags: inspiration baseball sports
Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.
Thomas BoswellTags: life poetry speech baseball concentration
ESPN, is having the ability to foretell future outcomes in sports.
Anthony LiccioneTags: basketball read baseball sports football soccer golf warn hockey esp outcomes prophesy reveal espn psych foretell prognosticate see-something-coming signify soothsay
In the sixties, dear Bill, we did not say 'top' and 'bottom' - we said 'pitcher' and 'catcher'...
John IrvingTags: baseball
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