Baseball and Life

What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter? ~ Warren Spahn

Baseball is life. The rest is just details. ~ Sporting News

Baseball
"The bases were drunk, and I painted the black with my best yakker. But blue squeezed me, and I went full. I came back with my heater, but the stick flares one the other way and chalk flies for two bases. Three earnies! Next thing I know, skipper hooks me and I'm sipping suds with the clubby." - Ed Lynch, Mets' pitcher

Life:
"I am ... happy to speak my words at the university graduation. A lot of people have been quoting me ever since I came to play for the Yankees in 1946. But, as I once said, I really didn't say everything I said. So now it's my turn. I want to give some of my famous advice to the graduates. First, never give up, because it ain't over 'til it's over. Second, during the years ahead, when you come to the fork in the road, take it. Third, don't always follow the crowd, because nobody goes there any more. It's too crowded. Fourth, stay alert. You can observe a lot by watching. Fifth, and last, remember that whatever you do in life, 90 percent of it is half mental. In closing, I want to quote myself again: Thank you, Montclair State University, for making this day necessary." Yogi Berra

LIFE:

Life is a **** sandwich. But if you've got enough bread, you don't taste the ****. ~Jonathan Winters

BASEBALL:

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

"Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbers go for base hits. It's an unfair game."

Ron Kanehl

I ain't ever had a job. I just always played baseball.
Satchel Paige

And one of my personal favorites:

If you're not having fun in baseball, you miss the point of everything.
Chris Chambliss

"The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing"
Dizzy Dean

I can relate....

Most of the managers are lifetime .220 hitters. For years pitchers have been getting these managers out 75% of the time and that's why they don't like us.”. bill lee

don't take life to serious........you'll never make it out alive.

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quote:

It is played everywhere. In parks and playgrounds and prison yards. In back alleys and farmers' fields. By small children and old men. Raw amateurs and millionaire professionals. It is a leisurely game that demands blinding speed. The only game in which the defense has the ball. It follows the seasons, beginning each year with the fond expectancy of springtime, and ending with the hard facts of autumn. It is a haunted game, in which every player is measured against the ghosts of all who have gone before. Most of all, it is about time and timelessness. Speed and grace. Failure and loss. Imperishable hope. And coming home.

Ken Burns "Baseball"


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"Baseball has been berra berra good to me".



Chico Escuela - (Garret Morris character - SNL)

On a bubble, floating in the timelessness of space,
perhaps overdue for the grand burst,
We are cast.
Lost in a peculiar dimension!
..oblivious to our marital squabbles
..our political differences set aside
..even our love for God and family suspended
It is the top of the 1st.
And I am in heaven.
Floating on the bubble as long as I can.

--Bum