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BASEBALL QUOTES
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"Coaching third with a pitcher on base is like being a member of a bomb disposal squad. The thing could blow up in your face at any moment."
--Rocky Bridges
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It can be life or death in the fire service and it definitely felt like life and death on the ballfield.
--Allen Anderson on training to become a firefighter
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"I can't conceive of either team winning a single game."
--Warren Brown (Chicago writer), when asked for a prediction as to the outcome of the 1945 World Series between the Cubs and the Tigers and an obvious reference to the wartime look of both teams.
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"The best place to catch a baseball hit by (Mark) McGwire is definitely not within the confines of the playing field, or sometimes even the ballpark. Other players dial '1' for long distance. McGwire has to ask for an international operator."
--Thomas Boswell, writing in the Washington Post
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"There were only two Bash Brothers (Mark McGwire and Jose Canseco), and one's in Boston now. Maybe I can be a Bash Stepchild."
--Oakland's Scott Brosius, who has 10 homers, after suggestions he's ready to become a Bash Brother.
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"A lot of long relievers are ashamed to tell their parents what they do. The only nice thing about it is that you get to wear a uniform like everbody else."
- Jim Bouton, NY Yankees pitcher
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"Last year [1986], in 415 at bats, he had 27 homers and 80 steals. That's 40 home runs and 120 steals for a full year. [...] This year [1987], in 93 at bats, he's hitting .409 with those 12 homers, 27 RBI, 28 runs and 13 steals. For a full year, that projects to ... well, it doesn't project to anything. It's nonsense. More than 70 home runs, 170 RBI, 180 runs, 80 steals. Wayne Gretzky stats for baseball."
--Thomas Boswell on Eric Davis
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"Nobody's gone after Reds with this much vigor since Joe McCarthy."
--Jeff Blair of the Montreal Gazette, on the Expos' Shane Andrews, who hit .471 (16-for-34) with six homers and 21 RBI against Cincinnati in August 1996
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