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Letter "B" » batted
«How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball... The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go. I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.»
«It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.»
Author: Brooks Robinson
| About:
Baseball
| Keywords:
at bats, bat, batted, contract, contracted, contracting, glove, gloved, gloves, last word, loudest, player, Pretty Things, sure thing, The Last Word, The Player
«I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.»
Author: Casey Stengel
(Baseball Player, Manager)
| Keywords:
at bats, batted, batting, hitter, intentional, walks
«I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!»
«The difference between winning nineteen games and winning twenty for a pitcher is bigger than anyone out of baseball realizes. It's the same for hitters - someone who hits .300 looks back on the guy who batted .295 and says 'tough luck buddy.»
«If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.»
«Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky»
«My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me everyday after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad.»
Author: Mickey Mantle
(Baseball Player)
| About:
Family
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after-school, batted, granddad, grandfather, handed, lefty, left handed, pitched, switch-hit, yard
«I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats.»
Author: Woody Allen
(Actor, Author, Film Director, Screenwriter)
| Keywords:
at bats, baseball bat, bats, batted, defend, go down, march
«I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat, and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?»
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