Home Run Baker famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I heard a fella say once he'd rather have a rose bud when he was alive than to have a whole rose garden thrown his way after he is gone. It looks like they've (the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1935) thrown the roses my way while I'm still here.
-- Home Run Baker

#Baseball #Garden #Rose
I hope I never do anything to hurt baseball.
-- Home Run Baker

#Baseball #Hurt
I hope he (Babe Ruth) lives to hit one-hundred homers in a season. I wish him all the luck in the world. He has everybody else, including myself, hopelessly outclassed.
-- Home Run Baker

#Luck #Wish #World
The farmer doesn't care for the pitchers' battle that resolves itself into a checkers game. The farmer loves the dramatic, and slugging is more dramatic than even the cleverest pitching.
-- Home Run Baker

#Games #Battle #Care

Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.
I am officially Jewish, but Iâ€™m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.
"We may talk what we please," he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, "of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles, in fields d'or or d'argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms."
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
I'm the type of guy who likes to be there 24-7. I'm Mr. Roses.
With its leaves so rich and heavy with elation and its crimson face made brighter with visions of divinity the shadow of a certain rose looks just like an angel eating light.
Germany suffered most as a consequence of this Peace Treaty and the general insecurity which was bound to arise from it.Â The unemployment figure rose to a third of the number usually employed in the nation, which means, however, that by counting the families of the unemployed as well there were 26 million people in Germany out of a population of 65 millions faced by an absolutely hopeless future.
Something with inner beauty will live forever, like the scent of a rose.
My virgin sense of sound was steeped In the music of young streams; And roses through the casement peeped, And scented all my dreams.

Home Run Baker famous quotes

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