Baseball (TV series) Quotes

“How to stay young:”

“Who is this Baby Ruth? And what does she do?”

“"Brooks Robinson," Cincinnati's Pete Rose said, "belongs in a higher league."”

“"I don't want them to forget Ruth," Henry Aaron once said, "I just want them to remember me."”

“1786: a fine day. Play ball in the campus, but am beaten, for I miss catching and striking the ball.”

“Flood did not report to the Phillies' training camp. "I am a man," he told baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn.”

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“Ty Cobb liked sentimentality in his opponents, because he had none himself. Baseball, he said, is something like a war.”

“I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation.”

“If you play against the best clubs in the land–white clubs, as you say–it'll be a case of Greek meeting Greek. I fear nobody.”

“Only at bat did Jackson evidently forget the script—he would bat .375 in the Series.”

“At the funeral, Ruth's old teammates had served as pall bearers. "I'd give $100 for an ice cold beer," said Joe Dugan to Waite Hoyt. Hoyt nodded. "So would the Babe."”

“Aguilera brings it in, to Henderson. Swing...and a long one into left field...that ball might leave the park! It's a home run and Boston leads here in the 10th inning!”

“Swung on, belted... it's a long one... back goes Gionfriddo, back, back, back, back, back, back, back... heeee makes a one-handed catch against the bullpen! Oh, Doctor!”

“The Yankees were on their way to a fourth consecutive pennant in 1924, when they were stopped cold by one man: Walter Johnson.”

“I can't honestly say that I appreciate the way in which he [Babe Ruth] changed baseball..., but he was the most natural and unaffected man I ever knew...I look forward to meeting him again some day.”

“Who in the whole country wouldn't take a pill to make more money at their job? You would. "Hey, there's a pill and you're gonna get paid like Steven Spielberg," you would take the pill. You just would.”

“From then on, until the day he died, Claire Ruth remembered, Ruth sat by the telephone, waiting for a call to manage that never came.”

“The Commissioner refused to exempt him from the reserve clause. Flood refused to play, and vowed to take his case all the way to the Supreme Court. The century-old struggle between the owners and the players was approaching a climax.”

“By 1934, the world economy was in ruins, and fascism was on the rise. In Germany, the National Socialists had come to power and [had] begun to institute exclusionary laws against Jews, in an eerie echo of Jim Crow statutes in the United States.”