Baseball Wisdom

If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.  - Dave Barry

A hot dog at the ballgame beats roast beef at the Ritz.  - Humphrey Bogart


I'm convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile.  - Tom Clark

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.  - Earl Wilson


When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.  - Woody Allen

Why does everybody stand up and sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" when they're already there?  - Larry Anderson

The great thing about baseball is that there's a crisis every day.  - Gabe Paul

It breaks your heart.  It is designed to break your heart.  The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.  - A. Bartlett Giamatti, "The Green Fields of the Mind," Yale Alumni Magazine, November 1977