The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.
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What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat.Bill Veeck
When you're out there in the big league pressure cooker, a pitcher's attitude -- his utter confidence that he has an advantage of will and luck and guts over the hitter -- is almost as important as his stuff.
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After a month or so in St. Louis, we were looking around desperately for a way to draw a few people into the ball park, it being perfectly clear by that time that the ball club wasn't going to do it unaided.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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