Baseballisms

“Winning is better than the next worse thing.”

- Bill Lee

“I was never nervous when I had the ball, but when I let go I was scared to death.”

- Lefty Gomez

“Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.”

- Joe Garagiola

“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

“Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can’t get you off.”

- Bill Veeck