Name The Quote

[mikeymussina35]

Hey guys! Haven't been on since the Yankee collapse in the ALDS against the Indians so I'm back! Anyway a cool new trivia topic I figured was a Name the Quote Trivia Thread. Here is the first one:::

"It breaks your heart. It's designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone."

[dgarza]

Bart Giamatti
I know it's in Ken Burn's Baseball. Must be a Boston thing.

[dgarza]

"Willie Mays appears instead in the bottom of the first and a roar goes up as he clouts the first one into the sun and takes off like a footrunner from Thebes."

[mikeymussina35]

I believe the answer is Lawrence Ferlinghetti?:nod::nod::D:laugh

[dgarza]

I believe the answer is Lawrence Ferlinghetti?:nod::nod::D:laugh
I know you're right.

[mikeymussina35]

Alright heres one::::

"Anybody with ability can play in the major leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat."

:D:laugh:D:D:cap:

[RuthMayBond]

Alright heres one::::

"Anybody with ability can play in the major leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat."

:D:laugh:D:D:cap:I'm thinking Bob Uecker

[dgarza]

"Julio Franco had to go. No longer in Cleveland would he put on a show."

[mikeymussina35]

I'm thinking Bob Uecker

Correct. Hey how have u been doin? Haven't been on in a while!

[orangeandblack55]

this one might be pretty easy...

"The dumber a pitcher is, the better. When he gets smart and begins to experiment with a lot of different pitches, he's in trouble. All I ever had was a fastball, a curveball and a change-up and I did pretty good."

[Utter Chaos]

"Julio Franco had to go. No longer in Cleveland would he put on a show."
Yoda???????

[mikeymussina35]

this one might be pretty easy...

"The dumber a pitcher is, the better. When he gets smart and begins to experiment with a lot of different pitches, he's in trouble. All I ever had was a fastball, a curveball and a change-up and I did pretty good."

orangeandblack55! It was easy Dizzy Dean!:crossfingers:

[dgarza]

Yoda???????

This person is taller than Yoda.

[orangeandblack55]

orangeandblack55! It was easy Dizzy Dean!:crossfingers:

yep yep, nice one

[mikeymussina35]

This ones a little more difficult::

"I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer."

[RuthMayBond]

This ones a little more difficult::

"I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer."the late great Dan Quisenberry

[Steven Tyler]

"The only thing worse than a Mets game, is a Mets doubleheader."

[mikeymussina35]

the late great Dan Quisenberry

Correct RuthMayBond!:D

"The only thing worse than a Mets game, is a Mets doubleheader."

That would be Casey Stengel:D

[RuthMayBond]

This person is taller than Yoda.That might disqualify Eddie Gaedel

[mikeymussina35]

Heres a Quote

"Maybe someday I will be a great player, but not yet. I have a good deal to learn and watch every player, some of whom may do something of benefit to me to me another time."

Guess Who?

[dgarza]

That might disqualify Eddie Gaedel
So would the fact that Eddie Gaedel never appeared on TWIB.

[Brooklyn]

Heres a Quote

"Maybe someday I will be a great player, but not yet. I have a good deal to learn and watch every player, some of whom may do something of benefit to me to me another time."

Guess Who?

Chief Sockalexis

[mikeymussina35]

Chief Sockalexis

well done.

[NightHawks2007]

"It would be useless for any player to attempt to explain successful batting."

[mikeymussina35]

That would be Tris Speaker

[NightHawks2007]

That would be Tris Speaker

Correct.

Now a long one...

"In American society, our ways of teaching baseball are better then our ways of teaching everything else. No matter how it is that your mind works, baseball reaches out to you. If you're an emotional person, baseball asks for your heart. If you are a thinking man or a thinking woman, baseball wants your opinion. Whether you are left-brain or right-brain, whether your mind is bent towards mathematics or toward history or psychology or geometry, whether you are young or old, baseball has its way of asking for you. If you are a reader, ther is always something new to read about baseball, and something old. If you are a sedentary person, a TV watcher, baseball is on TV; if you always have to be going somewhere, baseball is somewhere you can go. If you are a collector, baseball offers you a hundred things that you can collect. If you have children, baseball is something you can do with children; if you have parents and cannot talk to them, baseball is something you can still talk to them about."