Baseballisms

“I could never play in New York. The first time I came into a game there, I got into the bullpen car and they told me to lock the door.”

- Mike Flanagan

“Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball - you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him?  Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol.  You have to love a ballplayer like that. ”

- Nomar Garciaparra

“Baseball statistics are like a girl in a bikini. They show a lot, but not everything.”

- Toby Harrah

“There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball.  Unfortunately, neither of them work.”

- Charlie Lau

“Trying to hit Phil Niekro was like trying to eat Jell-O with chopsticks”

- Bobby Murcer