Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

In the great department store of life, baseball is the toy department.

In the great department store of life, baseball is the toy department.

Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.

Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, read more

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.

Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, read more

Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it.

There are only five things you can do in baseball: run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.

There are only five things you can do in baseball: run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.

Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.

Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.

Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.

Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.

One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where read more

One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.