071922 quotes

Every strike brings me

Closer to the next home

Run.

- Babe Ruth

 

My motto was always

To keep swinging.

Whether I was in a slump

Or feeling badly or having

Trouble off the field,

The only thing to do

Was keep swinging.

- Hank Aaron

 

I don’t rate them,

I just hit them.

- Willie Mays

 

Fenway is the

Essence of baseball.

- Tom Seaver

 

It ain’t over

’til it’s over.

- Yogi Berra

 

We (Atlanta Braves) hit every bump

We could possibly hit this year (2021)

And somehow the car still made it to

The other side,

We’ve been the best team since the

Trade Deadline and we played like it

All the way into the postseason.

We just got hot, and we just carried it over.

Said Braves first baseman Freddie Freeman,

Who homered and drove in two runs in Game 6.

It’s just an incredible group.

 

He Saw The Play…

 

Those who read baseball history would remember

The name of Christy Mathewson.

He was a pitcher for the New York Giants.

He won the first game that he pitched for them.

Then he pitched many times and was quite a champion.

             

In 1908 the New York Giants were playing the

Chicago Cubs for the championship of the year.

It was the last half of the ninth inning and the score

Was tied with two men out. A man was on first base

(Fred Merkle) Awaiting the hit. The hit came and they

Were away. The runner from first base crossed the home

Plate for the winning run.

 

Immediately, however, the run was challenged by Chicago.

They claimed that the man (Fred Merkle) running from first

Base had not touched second base. The teams were in a hot

Dispute. President Harry Pulliam of the National League was

Called In and he said, “Where's Christy Mathewson?”

             

Christy was called and was asked to state what he saw.

Knowing that the meaning of the decision, the losing of the

Championship for the members of his team, and the extra

Money that goes along with the championship to the winners,

Christy replied, “Merkel cut second base.”

Christy and his team lost the championship,

But baseball won something far more important than a

Pennant. 

             

Honesty is a lost quality in the world today.

 

(The 1908 Cubs were involved in the famous "Merkle's Boner"

Incident, in which Fred Merkle, the Giants' base-runner on

1st base, failed to touch 2nd after the Giants' hitter had singled

home the winning run from 3rd. Johnny Evers retrieved the

ball from the crowd (which had flooded the field) and got an ump

to call Merkle out at 2nd. Merkle's mental lapse ended up costing

The Giants the pennant.)

 

https://www.baseball-almanac.com/teams/cubs.shtml

 

 

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