Hank Aaron (1934-) |
The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round. |
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There are surprisingly few real students of the game in baseball; partly because everybody, my eighty-three year old grandmother included, thinks they learned all there was to know about it at puberty. Baseball is very beguiling that way. |
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There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all. |
Mark McGwire (1963-) |
Tom Cruise only makes one or two film appearances a year. A baseball player can be the hero or the goat one-hundred and sixty-two times a year. |
Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species. |
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