“I love baseball. I live for the spring. It gets me through half of the year, and then I have to figure out how to make it through the other half. There’s a real poetry to baseball. It’s like life, because for a long period of time absolutely nothing happens. And then all of a sudden, ‘A triple play, unassisted!'”
Emmylou Harris
more infosource: “Emmylou Harris,” interviewed by Lucinda Williams, BOMB magazine, Issue 59, Spring 1997.
category: baseball, hope, sports, spring
medium: Interview
“I sometimes feel as though I’m playing center field with 10 people hitting fly balls to me at one time.”
Robert W. Haack
more infosource: quoted in “Big Board’s Haack: A 10-Month Appraisal,” by Vartanig G. Vartan, The New York Times, July 11, 1968.
category: analogy, baseball, chaos, stock exchange
medium: Newspaper article
“I’ve had lots of offers to sell. No way. Owning the Yankees is like owning the Mona Lisa.”
George Steinbrenner
more infosource: October Men, by Roger Kahn (New York: Harcourt, 2004), 21.
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category: baseball, Mona Lisa, money, Yankees
medium: nonfiction
“Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Yankee Stadium.”
Bob Sheppard
more infosource: “Yankees Announcer Sheppard Dies,” ESPN, July 11, 2010.
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category: announcer, baseball, Yankee Stadium
medium: obituary
notes: full name is Robert Leo Sheppard
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