The Booker Boys Play Baseball
Jacob
“Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.� -Walt Alston
“The players make the manager, it’s never the other way.” -Sparky Anderson
“He, (Satchell Page) threw the ball as far from the bat and as close to the plate as possible.� -Casey Stengel
“It’s high time something was done for the pitchers. They put up the stands and take down fences to make more home runs and plague the pitchers. Let them revive the spitter and help the pitchers make a living.� -Casey Stengel
“If someone met me on a game day, he wouldn’t like me. The days in between, I’m the goodest guy you can find.” -Roger Clemens
“Your teammates are counting on you to do well. They look forward for you to do that, regardless of age, regardless of experience, regardless of, you know, what other intangibles you bring. They expect you to go out there and do well, and I expect the same from those guys.� -Roger Clemens
Roger Clemens is the one who taught me that better shape you’re in, the better you’ll throw the ball. If I’ve had four good workouts between my starts, I take that confidence to the mound with me. How can it not help me to think that way? -Andy Pettitte
“If we lose today, it will be over my dead body. They’ll have to leave me face down on the mound.” -Louis Tiant
Jason
“When ole Diz was out there it was more than just another ballgame. It was a regular three-ring circus and everybody was wide awake and enjoying being alive. -Pepper Martin
“A good friend of mine used to say, ‘This is a very simple game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains.’ Think about that for a while.” -From the movie Bull Durham
“The one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It’s been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past. It reminds us of all that once was good, and what could be again.” - James Earl Jones in Field of Dreams
“I remember one game I got five hits and stole five bases, but none of it was written down because they didn’t bring the scorebook to the game that day.” -Cool Papa Bell
Papa Bel was so fast that once he hit a line drive right past my ear. I turned around and saw the ball hit his ass as he was sliding into second.� -Satchell Page
“I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.� - Bill Veeck, Jr.
It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.� -A. Bartlett Giamatti
“Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.� -Babe Ruth