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.

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The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.

The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.

How can you be a sage if you're pretty? You can't get your wizard papers...

How can you be a sage if you're pretty? You can't get your wizard papers...

Im for the dreamers. The only really important things in history have been started by...

Im for the dreamers. The only really important things in history have been started by...

Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.

Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.

The Falstaff people, romantics all, went for it. They were so anxious to find out...

The Falstaff people, romantics all, went for it. They were so anxious to find out...

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get...

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get...

I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of...

I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of...

I was in the game for love. After all, where else can an old-timer with...

I was in the game for love. After all, where else can an old-timer with...

There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.

There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.

Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay...

Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay...

There are only two seasons - winter and baseball.

There are only two seasons - winter and baseball.

I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but...

I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but...

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get...

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get...

I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of...

I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of...

The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.

The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.

I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is...

I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is...

After a month or so in St. Louis, we were looking around desperately for a...

After a month or so in St. Louis, we were looking around desperately for a...

I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity.

I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity.

The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the...

The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the...