Quote by Red Smith
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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World Series
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Most games are lost, not won. – Casey Stengel

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World Series

Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up. – Sharon Olds, This Sporting Life, 1987

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World Series

Baseball is a harbor, a seclusion from failure that really matters, a playful utopia in which virtuosity can be savored to the third decimal place of a batting average. – Mark Kramer

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World Series

A hot dog at the ball park is better than steak at the Ritz. – Humphrey Bogart

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Some things have to be believed to be seen. – Ralph Hodgson, The Skylark and Other Poems

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The kindest word in all the world is the unkind word, unsaid. – Author Unknown

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The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession. – Martin Luther

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Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You cant do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen. – Keith Richards

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