It is mid-May and Major League Baseball season is in full swing=
=2E Someone may need to tell the White Sox or Rockies or Angels they =
can start playing any time now.
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Here are so=
me quotations by baseball players/managers and you must step up to the plat=
e and give the right name. Easy peasy. You have 20 chances for a home=
run or a strike out.
Example: "There’s no crying in baseball." – =
Jimmy Dugan (fictional baseball manager but we all loved the movie “A=
League of Their Own”)
1. "Baseball is a universal language. Catch the=
ball, throw the ball, hit the ball.”
2. "Little League baseball is =
a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets."
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3. "Ne=
ver allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game."
4. "=
;Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday’s success or pu=
t its failures behind and start over again. That’s the way life is, with a =
new game every day."
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5. "If my uniform doesn’t get dirty, I haven’t do=
ne anything in the baseball game."
6. "Fans don’t boo ‘nobodies&=
#8217;."
7. "I really love the togetherness in baseball. That’s real tr=
ue love."
8. "Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can su=
cceed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer."=
9. "D=
on’t look back. Something might be gaining on you."
10. "A baseba=
ll game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings."=
11. "=
I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player."=
12. "When I=
was up there at the plate, my purpose was to get on base any way I could, =
whether by hitting or getting hit."
13. "It took me 17 years to get 3,0=
00 hits in baseball, and I did it in one afternoon on the golf course."=
;
14. =
"Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing;=
nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead."
15. "They give you a roun=
d bat, they throw you a round ball, and then they tell you to hit it square=
=2E"
16. "I could have played baseball another year, but I would have b=
een playing for the money, and baseball deserves better than that."
17. &qu=
ot;Baseball is like driving. It’s the one who gets home safely that counts.=
”
18. "I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw."
19. "Yo=
u could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball."=
20. "=
Close doesn’t count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenad=
es."
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Dr Bob Griffin
[email protected] www.grif.net
"Jesus Knows Me, This I Love!&q=
uot;