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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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There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem – once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit. – Al Gallagher, 1971

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Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width. – Bill Veeck, 1975

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A critic once characterized baseball as six minutes of action crammed into two-and-one-half hours. – Ray Fitzgerald, in Boston Glove, 1970

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You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too. – Roy Campanella

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