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Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest m

Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection. – Red Smith

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The Russians have a weapon that can wipe out two hundred eighty thousand Americans. That puts them exactly ten years behind Howard Cosell. – Red Smith

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When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw up your taxes. – Don Drysdale, 1978

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Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. – George F. Will, Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball, 1990

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Most games are lost, not won. – Casey Stengel

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