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"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring." -- Ralph Houk

"Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?" -- Jim Bouton

"Hey, big mouth, how do you spell triple?" -- Shoeless Joe Jackson's response to a heckler -- Shoeless couldn't read or write.

"It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy." -- Nolan Ryan

"Baseball was, is, and always will be, the best game in the world." -- Babe Ruth

"If you're not having fun in baseball, you miss the point of everything." -- Chris Chambliss

"You don't face Ryan without your rest. He's the only guy I go against that makes me go to bed before midnight." -- Reggie Jackson on Nolan Ryan

"You’d better make it four. I don’t think I can eat six pieces." -- Yogi Berra, when asked if he wanted his pizza cut into four or six pieces.

"You’ve got to remember - I’m 73." -- Ty Cobb, on why he thought he would hit only .300 against modern day pitching

"Winfield goes back to the wall. He hits his head on the wall, and it rolls off! It’s rolling all the way back to second base! This is a terrible thing for the Padres." -- Jerry Coleman

"I told him I wasn’t tired. He told me, ‘No, but the outfielders sure are’." -- Jim Kern - Texas Rangers pitcher, when being removed for a reliever.

"Bob Gibson is the luckiest pitcher I ever saw. He always pitches when the other team doesn’t score any runs." -- Tim McCarver

"One of the hard things for parents to understand is how - if it takes the whole family one hour to get junior up and dressed and off to school in time, with only a slim chance of his remembering everything he’s supposed to take, he can get dressed for a ball game, with no prompting, in ten minutes, and be off without forgetting the minutest detail of his equipment." -- Gluyas Williams, cartoon caption, July 24, 1946.