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A baseball bat is a wondrous weapon. - Ty Cobb Abbott: Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third. Costello: That's what I want to find out. - Lou Costello

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases. - Mickey Mantle All I want is for my case to be heard before an impractical decision-maker. - Pete Rose As long as I've got a chance to beat you I'm going to take it. - Leo Durocher

Aw, how could he (Jorge Orta) lose the ball in the sun, he's from Mexico. - Harry Caray Baseball is like church. Many attend; few understand. - Leo Durocher

Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don't even speak to him on the field. Get out there and beat them to death. - Leo Durocher

Candlestick was built on the water. It should have been built under it." - Roger Maris For the parents of a Little Leaguer, a baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown into innings. - Earl Wilson

Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you. - Leo Durocher God watches over drunks and third baseman. - Leo Durocher

Hit the ball over the fence and you can take your time going around the bases. - John W. Raper Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part. - Mickey Mantle

How you play the game is for college ball. When you're playing for money, winning is the only thing that matters. - Leo Durocher I always loved the game, but when my legs weren't hurting it was a lot easier to love. - Mickey Mantle

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them? - Leo Durocher I hated to bat against Drysdale. After he hit you he'd come around, look at the bruise on your arm and say, 'Do you want me to sign it?' - Mickey Mantle

I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules. - Leo Durocher

I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes. - Leo Durocher

I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw. - Willie Mays

I would always sing it (Take Me Out To The Ball Game), because I think it's the only song I knew the words to! - Harry Caray I'd rather hit than have sex. - Reggie Jackson

If he raced his pregnant wife he'd finish third. (on catcher Mide Scioscia) - Tommy Lasorda

If I were playing third base and my mother were rounding third with the run that was going to beat us, I'd trip her. Oh, I'd pick her up and brush her off and say, "Sorry, Mom," but nobody beats me. - Leo Durocher If you don't win, you're going to be fired. If you do win, you've only put off the day you're going to be fired. - Leo Durocher In order to become a big-league manager you have to be in the right place at the right time. That's rule number one. - Leo Durocher

In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you. - Leo Durocher

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. - Hank Aaron It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life. - Mickey Mantle

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian. - H. L. Mencken

People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000.00. - Pete Incaviglia

Some guys are admired for coming to play, as the saying goes. I prefer those who come to kill. - Leo Durocher

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided. - Casey Stengel

The kid doesn't chew tobacco, smoke, drink, curse, or chase broads. I don't see how he can possibly make it. - Richie Ashburn

They (Expos fans) discovered 'boo' is pronounced the same in French as it is in English. - Harry Caray

Well, that was a cliff-dweller. - Wes Westrum

When I hit a home run I usually didn't care where it went. So long as it was a home run was all that mattered. - Mickey Mantle Winfield goes back to the wall. He hits his head on the wall and it rolls off! It's rolling all the way back to second base! This is a terrible thing for the Padres! - Jerry Coleman

You argue with the umpire because there is nothing else you can do about it. - Leo Durocher

You don't realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth. - Mickey Mantle You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain. - Leo Durocher

You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games. - Harry Caray