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You have read Shanley's Corner. Now read these famous baseball quotes: Baseball is our national pastime, that is if you discount political campaigning. Ronald Reagan Baseball? It's just a game - as simple as a ball and a bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. It's a sport, business - and sometimes even religion. Ernie Harwell in 1955 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 in I Don't Care If I Never Come Back Say this much for big league baseball - it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America. Bruce Catton, Pulitzer Prize-winning author 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, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. George F. Will When he hit it, I knew that it was my ball. But I had to catch it and it seemed like the hardest catch of my life. I said to myself, 'Two hands, just like your dad taught you.' Darin Erstad on catching the final out in Game 7 Grantland Rice, the great sportswriter once said, 'It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.' Well Grantland Rice can go to hell as far as I'm concerned. Gene Autry What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs. Harry Caray People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. Rogers Hornsby 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 in Ball Four It's designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains comes, it stops, and leaves you to face the fall alone. A. Bartlett Giamatti, former Comissioner of Baseball A hot dog at the ball park is better than steak at the Ritz. Humphrey Bogart The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love. Bryant Gumbel Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction. Robert Frost You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity...No we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball. Albert Einstein It’s still the best game in town because you don’t have to be big to play, and everybody plays. Even your grandmother probably played baseball. Tommy Lasorda
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