Monday, April 4, 2011

This'n'That; April Fourth #2; More Baseball Humor

Some More Baseball Humor
  This was found in a publication the AARP-American Association of Radical Prima Donnas:
  • Alan Sutton Sothoron pitched his initials off today. -Anonymous; St Louis paper
  • All I remember about my wedding day in 1967 is that the Cubs lost a double-header. -George F. Will
  • Never root for a team whose uniforms have elastic stretch waistbands. -Susan Sarandon
  • There ain't much to being a ballplayer, if you're a ballplayer. -Honus Wagner
  • Us ballplayers do things backward.  First we play, then we retire and go to work. -Charlie Gehringer
  • The funny thing about those uniforms is that you hang them in a closet and they get smaller and smaller. -Curt Flood
  • Sure I played, did you think I was born age 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you? -Casey Stingel, to Mickey Mantle
  • When you start the game, they don't say "Work ball!"  They say "Play ball!" -Willie Stargell
  • There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball.  Unfortuately, neither one of them works. -Charlie Lau
  • The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until the ball stops rolling and then pick it up. -Bob Uecker
  • Think!  How the hell are you gonna think and hit at the same time? -Yogi Berra
  • The majority of American males put themselves to sleep by striking out the batting order of the New York Yankees. -James Thurber
  • A hot dog at the game beats roast beef at the Ritz. -Humphrey Bogart
  • He's the strangest hitter in baseball.  Figure him out one way and he'll kill you another. -Sandy Koufax on Roberto Clemente
  • As a nation we are dedicated to keeping physically fit-and parking as close to the stadium as possible. -Bill Vaughan
  • Slump?  I ain't in no slump.  I just ain't hitting. -Yogi Berra
  • A man once told me to walk with the Lord.  I'd rather walk with the bases loaded. -Ken Singleton
  • I'd be willing to bet you, if I was a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball. -Pete Rose
  • Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets. -Yogi Berra
  • Lasorda's standard reply when some new kid would ask directions to the whirlpool was to tell him to stick his foot in the toilet and flush it. -Steve Garvey
  • If you don't succeed at first, try pitching. -Jack Harshman
  • The Hall of Fame is for baseball people.  Heaven is for good people. -Jim Dwyer
  • So I'm ugly. So what?  I never saw anyone hit with his face. -Yogi Berra
  • He looks like a greyhound, but he runs like a bus. -George Brett, on thrid baseman Jamie Quirk
  • The baseball mania has run its course.  It has no future as a professional endeavor.  Cincinnati Gazette editorial-1879
Til Nex'Time....

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