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" For the first time since 1982, St.Louis has a World Series winner" - Joe Buck :thumbup:

"You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time."

Jim Bouton

Louis Prima: With all the great players playing ball right now, how well do you think you would do against today's pitchers?

Ty Cobb: Well, I figure against today's pitchers I'd only probably hit about .290

Louis Prima: .290? Well that's amazing, because you batted over .400 a... a whole bunch of times. Now tell us all, we'd all like to know, why do you think you'd only hit .290?

Ty Cobb: Well, I'm 72 ****** years old you ignorant son of a *****.

stlmark wrote:" For the first time since 1982, St.Louis has a World Series winner" - Joe Buck :thumbup:

That's a good one.

"I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it." - Rogers Hornsby


"With those who don't give a damn about baseball, I can only sympathize. I do not resent them. I am even willing to concede that many of them are physically clean, good to their mothers and in favor of world peace. But while the game is on, I can't think of anything to say to them." - Art Hill

card_fan_in_chi wrote:Louis Prima: With all the great players playing ball right now, how well do you think you would do against today's pitchers?

Ty Cobb: Well, I figure against today's pitchers I'd only probably hit about .290

Louis Prima: .290? Well that's amazing, because you batted over .400 a... a whole bunch of times. Now tell us all, we'd all like to know, why do you think you'd only hit .290?

Ty Cobb: Well, I'm 72 ****** years old you ignorant son of a *****.

Something tells me Bobby Knight and Ty Cobb would have been the best of friends.

From the movie quote thread in Social:

"The one constant through all the years, Ray, 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, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and it could be again. Ohhhhhhhh, people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come."

A few of my favorites

"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game." ~ Jacques Barzun

Some of my favorites from Casey Stengel:

"Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits."

"Son, we'd like to keep you around this season but we're going to try and win a pennant."

"I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I've been thrown out of so many."

and finally, maybe my favorite quote of all time, the simple:

"Let's play two" ~ Ernie Banks

FWIW, that quote about the turf attributed to Bill Lee was actually Tug McGraw who said that.

"Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. "

-Satchel Paige