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Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of nine players each who take turns batting and fielding. It is one of the most widely played sports in the world.
Jim Abbott
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His Favorite Sports Books: The Major League pitching phenom and gold medalist lines up his top five athletic reads in honor of his autobiography, Imperfect.
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Vowels were something else. He didn't like them, and they didn't like him. There were only five of them, but they seemed to be everywhere. Why, you could go through twenty words without bumping into some of the shyer consonants, but it seemed as if you couldn't tiptoe past a syllable without waking up a vowel. Consonants, you knew pretty much where they stood, but you could never trust a vowel. To the old pitcher, they were like his own best knuckle ball come back to haunt him. In, out, up, down
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― Jerry Spinelli
― Jerry Spinelli
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They say some of my stars drink whiskey. But I have found that the ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.
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― Fred McMane
― Fred McMane
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