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This video, in its original form, has been on YouTube for a while. But, it has recently been updated with new statistics. Even if you've watched it before, it's worth taking another look.
–Greg
This video, in its original form, has been on YouTube for a while. But, it has recently been updated with new statistics. Even if you've watched it before, it's worth taking another look.
–Greg
Those of you who are not rabidly following the world cup, or obsessively and morosely watching reruns of the 2009 season on the NFL Network (I’m talking about you, Mr. Hillmer-Poole) have probably noticed that the baseball season is in full swing. Some of us who work by Coors Field have noticed more than others…particularly during rush hour after an afternoon game.
Baseball, unlike more exciting sports, allows for a great deal of standing about and chatting, and is therefore a rich resource for snappy one-liners. Here are a few gems collected by Project Muse® for the 16th volume of their publication, NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture.
Diamond Quotes
“The human hand is made complete by the addition of a baseball.”
Paul Dickson
“The only way to prove you’re a good sport is to lose.”
Ernie Banks
“With those who don’t give a damn about baseball, I can only sympathize. I do not resent them. I am even willing to concede that many of them are physically clean, good to their mothers and in favor of world peace. But while the game is on, I can’t think of anything to say to them.”
Art Hill
“Catching a fly ball is a pleasure, but knowing what to do with it after you catch it is a business.”
Tommy Henrich
“Most ball games are lost, not won.”
Casey Stengel
“When you are ten, you know more about your team than you ever will know again.”
Dan Shaughnessy
“There are three things the average man thinks he can do better than anyone else: build a fire, run a hotel, and manage a baseball team.”
Rocky Bridges
“They used to say, ‘If we find a good black player, we’ll sign him.’ They was lying.”
Cool Papa Bell
“These are uncertain times. We cannot be content to rest on yesterday’s laurels. These are times when we must strengthen rather than let down those standards which have stood in such good stead in crises that are past. Baseball cannot be selfish, or irresponsible, or lax. Neither can the men who operate it.”
Branch Rickey
“There isn’t enough mustard in the world to cover Reggie Jackson.”
Darold Knowles
“I don’t want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.”
Rogers Hornsby
“For someone whose roots in America were strong but only inches deep, and who had no experience, such as a Catholic child might, of an awesome hierarchy that was real and felt, baseball was a kind of secular church that reached into every class and region of the nation and bound millions upon millions of us together in common concerns, loyalties, rituals, enthusiasms, and antagonisms. Baseball made me understand what patriotism was about, at its best.”
Philip Roth
“Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand.”
Leo Durocher
“The purpose of baseball in life is not to teach us how to win; but rather to show us that even though we are going to eventually lose to successfully delay the last loss of our season.”
Bill Kirwin
—Lisa
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—Sara

Because I think that the children are our future, and also good guinea pigs, I devised a sophisticated plan to gauge the effectiveness of ads in some popular women’s magazines. I sat my daughter and her two cousins down at the kitchen table, gave them each an InStyle magazine, and instructed them to pick their favorite ad.
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