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• Maintain ‘baseball cards’ and/or ‘believability matrixes’ for your people. Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way.

  Ray Dalio

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Baseball, Did, Play

• Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way.

  Ray Dalio

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Home, Win, Baseball

• My father loved baseball and he cultivated my talent. I don’t think he ever had any doubt in his mind that I would play professional baseball someday.

  Bob Feller

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Talent, Baseball

• Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.

  Bob Feller

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Baseball

• Our economics are not baseball’s economics. Our game is not baseball’s game. Our owners are not baseball’s owners, with one or two exceptions. Our union is not baseball’s union. What we do has to be crafted and suited to address hockey, to address the NHL, to address our 30 teams and our 700-plus players.

  Gary Bettman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Baseball, Economics, Players

• I played baseball because I could make more money doing that than I could doing anything else.

  Bill Terry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Played, Baseball

• As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports, like books about Baseball Joe, as one baseball hero was called.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hero, Baseball

• If you put a baseball and other toys in front of a baby, he’ll pick up a baseball in preference to the others.

  Tris Speaker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Baseball

• I’m flattered that so many baseball people think I’m a Hall of Famer. But what’s hard to believe is how one-hundred and fifty plus people have changed their minds about me since I became eligible, because I haven’t had a base hit since then.

  Richie Ashburn

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe, Hard, Baseball

• You shouldn’t have any betting in the locker room at all, whether it’s baseball or it’s horses. You can’t beat the horses. You can’t beat any kind of gambling because they have the odds.

  George Steinbrenner

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Baseball, Gambling

• Owning the Yankees is like owning the Mona Lisa.

  George Steinbrenner

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Baseball, Team

• Is it in the best interest of baseball to sell beer in the ninth inning? Probably not. The rule has got to be more clearly defined. And then some process should be set up where the judge is not also the appeals judge.

  George Steinbrenner

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Baseball, Judgement

• As I have said many times – my father was a great fan of Bill Dickey’s and he certainly loved the Yankees. I hope that he would be pleased.

  George Steinbrenner

  Topics in Father

  Tags in Baseball, Manager

• I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.

  George Steinbrenner

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Baseball, Agency

• I’ve been lucky. I’ve met a lot of baseball people, and I’ve learned to value people who talk – people who talk well and in long sentences and even long paragraphs.

  Roger Angell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Baseball, Learned

• I knew I wasn’t a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn’t want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.

  Roger Angell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Thought, Baseball

• We’re the best team in baseball, but not by much.

  Sparky Anderson

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  Tags in Baseball

• The great thing about baseball is when you’re done, you’ll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask me about 1989, I’ll tell them I had amnesia.

  Sparky Anderson

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  Tags in Baseball

• Casey knew his baseball. He only made it look like he was fooling around. He knew every move that was ever invented and some that we haven’t even caught on to yet.

  Sparky Anderson

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  Tags in Like, Baseball

• Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success.

  Sparky Anderson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Baseball