Baseballisms

“I have discovered in twenty years of moving around a ball park, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.” - Bill Veeck

“Coaching third with a pitcher on base is like being a member of a bomb disposal squad. The thing could blow up in your face at any moment.”- Rocky Bridges

“The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.”- Steve Garvey

Happy Earth Day

“I think about the cosmic snowball theory. A few million years from now the sun will burn out and lose its gravitational pull. The earth will turn into a giant snowball and be hurled through space. When that happens it won’t matter if I get this guy out.”

- Bill Lee

Morning Baseball at Fenway!

“A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, ‘There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.’”

- Ted Williams