"All pitchers are liars or crybabies."
"A nickel ain't
worth a dime anymore." Source: Baseball Digest (June
1987)
"Baseball is ninety
percent mental. The other
half is physical."
"Bill
Dickey is learning me his experience." [Bill Dickey was a Hal
of Fame Yankee catcher from an earlier era.]
"He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious."
"How can a you hit and think at the same time?"
"I always thought that record would stand until it was
broken."
"I can see how he (Sandy
Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don't understand is how he lost
five."
"I don't know (if they were men or women fans running naked
across the field). They had bags over their heads."
"If people don't want to come out to the ballpark, how are
you going to stop them?"
"I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I
want to thank everyone for making this night necessary."
"I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk
to school like I did."
"In baseball, you don't know nothing."
"I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps
up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting,
how can I get mad at myself?"
"I never
said most of the things I said."
"It ain't the heat, it's the humility."
"It gets
late early out there."
"I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house."
"It's like deja
vu all over again."
"I
wish everybody had the drive he (Joe
DiMaggio) had. He never did anything wrong on the field. I'd
never seen him dive for a ball, everything was a chest-high catch, and he never
walked off the field."
"Little
League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets." Source: Catcher
in the Wry (Bob Uecker)
"Ninety percent of this game is half mental."
Source: Sports
Illustrated (May 14, 1979)
"Nobody goes there anymore because it's too crowded."
"So I'm ugly. I never saw anyone hit with his
face."
"Take it with a grin of salt."
"The game's isn't over until it's over."
"The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase."
"You can
observe a lot just by watching."
"You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise,
they won't come to yours."
"You've got to be very careful
if you don't know where you are going because you might not get there."
"We made too many wrong
mistakes."
"When you come to a fork in the road, take it."
Yogi
Berra was named to
American League All-Star teams during
fifteen
consecutive seasons. Do you remember which
seasons they
were?
Did you know that Yogi
Berra was one of the few catchers ever awarded the Most Valuable
Player Award and he won it three times — 1951, 1954 and
1955.
Charter - Channel 994
Logically, the Browns, or "Brownies," should
not inspire much loyalty. From 1902 to 1953, the cash-strapped team had a
collective record of 3,414 wins and 4,465 losses. It won one pennant in 1944,
only to lose to the Cardinals in the World Series. Then, the franchise moved to
Baltimore and became the Orioles.
Pittsburg, Kansas baseball legend Don Gutteridge would have
celebrated his 100th birthday June 19. The Gutteridge Foundation had dreamed
of unveiling a lifesize bronze sculpture of Gutteridge (1912-2008) inside the
entrance at JayCee Ballpark, nominal home of the Don Gutteridge League and
youth baseball in Pittsburg, on his birthday.
Bill Rogers, President of the Fan Club, said he was
already fielding questions as to how the fan club will top this year's program.
Rogers said, "This has become a common question ever since we had Mike
Veeck, son of Bill Veeck, the last owner of the Browns as our speaker in 2009.
This was followed in 2010 with Tommy Lasorda and Bob Costas as speakers and
then followed with Whitey Herzog, Bob Turley and Ned Garver last year.
Club President, Bill Rogers commented, "This location is almost ideal as it is near two major interstate highways, offers free parking and the main ballroom is on the main floor, just a short distance from the entrance. While banquet type lunches are growing in cost, the Holiday Inn offers a very competitive venue. We've had some exciting and entertaining speakers the past several years and hope to achieve this status again this year. We will be announcing speakers scheduled in a couple of weeks."
"I don't know (if they were men or women fans running naked
across the field). They had bags over their heads." 
In this case, the songwriter was none other than Joe Pickering Jr. who has written songs for HBO Films and has four albums of material in the national Baseball Hall Of Fame and Museum's sound collection. Joe was interested in writing new song about the Browns, and was not going to charge us anything, and all we had to do was work with him by providing him some of the history and lore of the team. Which naturally we were happy to do.
All of us Los Angeles Angel fans are waiting for Albert Pujols to come
out of his batting slump. It is not going to happen.
He used to be "Fat Albert." But now he is Slim Trim Albert, and his
dramatic weight loss has badly affected his hitting. His high fly balls to the outfield don't even reach the warning track anymore. He isn't
even much of a threat to hit home runs in 2012. He is not aggressive at the plate, and he takes
"home run pitches" for called strikes. 
