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When I went to high school, my most passionate desire was to be a professional baseball player. But ...
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DAVID CONE I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.
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NANCY PELOSI![]()
I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were ...
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Hopefully, they can say, "There goes the best baseball player in the world." I honestly believe I di...
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My favorite book is 'Go Away Big Green Monster.' I wrote it for my granddaughter Adrian, who...
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ANDY HARMON![]()
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RYNE SANDBERG I love baseball - 'Moneyball' was my favorite book when I was 13.
DYLAN O'BRIEN A lot of people ask me what was my best moment in baseball, ... This was it. This was No. 1.
EDDIE PEREZ I was born in South Bend, and I've been a Hoosier all my life.
JACKIE WALORSKI If you ask any coach they'll say the same thing in any game, whether it's soccer, baseball or hockey...
BO WILLIAMS The Capone era. That was my time. Capone was a big baseball fan. He'd walk into the ballpark lik...
BILLY HERMAN My first team was the Vipers 10-and-under. My dad played baseball. My grandmother's uncle played pro...
BRITTANY HIPPLE Just flush it if something bad happens. That's the way I was raised to play baseball.
DREW POMERANZ I used to play baseball, so when Bruce cut baseball, my initial reaction was not to like the decisio...
GARY THOMPSON One of my heroes growing up was Jackie Robinson. My mom, an ardent baseball fan from whom I got my l...
JARED POLIS That was by far the coldest I've ever been on a baseball field. The wind was in my face the whole ti...
MATT MCGRAW This is where I played the first four years of my career in the big leagues, ... and it was a beauti...
JOSE CRUZ![]()
My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.
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JERRY SPINELLI I could describe my career in two words: who knew. I was on the path to becoming a professional base...
SHEMAR MOORE He was pretty much the best hitter in the game -- probably the best all-around player in the game. H...
DAVID BELL Actually, I didn't know that. I like to name my characters after baseball players. Alan Trammell of ...
JOE ESZTERHAS I was planning to be a baseball player until I ran into something called a curveball. And that set m...
BEN CHANDLER I don't want there to be any confusion about this. My love and dedication is 100 percent with baseba...
BEN BROUSSARD![]()
I had started law school at Florida State University as a part-timer. I would go two quarters, and t...
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KAREN CARPENTER Willie Mays was the best baseball player I ever saw. He could do anything.
DOUG HARVEY![]()
For my children, they spent 15 to 20 years of their life in baseball. And Ruth and I spent so many y...
NOLAN RYAN Of all the unusual things my father did in baseball, ... my favorite hands down was the exploding sc...
MIKE VEECK This was the most humiliating day of my baseball career.
ICHIRO SUZUKI There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only proble...
AL GALLAGHER That's not in the cards, for the same reason a baseball player doesn't have the same bat as any othe...
DICK RUGGE Rod was a very meaningful person in my life, instrumental in my becoming the player that I was and t...
MARK MCGWIRE I did grow up with Kurt Russell as a Dad, who was a professional baseball player, with all boys. All...
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I've been playing baseball since I was 5 or 6 years old. I've been on a schedule, pretty muc...
DEREK JETER![]()
God’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I have a passion fo...
JONATHAN EDWARDS If you focus on the statistics, that's the worst thing you can do in your life as a baseball player,
PLACIDO POLANCO Football was important, but baseball is my first love. I know I can play baseball longer for health ...
ROBERT BROOKS Jim is an outstanding baseball player. He's a consummate baseball player. He's not real big, he's no...
JOE JORDANO I remember baseball cards I collected of Greg when I was in Little League. Now, to be in the same lo...
DENNIS ANDERSON![]()
I was a baseball guy. Mom wouldn't let me play football when I was little because she was scared...
CALVIN JOHNSON I was playing baseball, and I tripped over first base - I'm very clumsy - and I fell and broke m...
CHRISTOPHER MINTZ-PLASSE![]()
I was sort of traumatized by girls in the third grade. Because there was a girl in my third grade cl...
STEVE CARELL There was a lot of great baseball, and there was a lot of ugly baseball. It was like a heavyweight f...
DONNIE BRANCH I turned around and realized my best hitter was at the plate. That was a big risk to take. I should ...
LOU TREDEAU What's odd is that nobody in my family is an artist. My cousins are, like, secretaries at law fi...
MELONIE DIAZ![]()
I grew up in Tuscany in a very poor family. My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, ...
ROBERTO BENIGNI Like a lot of people who get into coaching, I was impacted by the people in my life. Certainly my fa...
KIRK FERENTZ![]()
I remember I was a scared rookie, hitting .220 after the first three months of my baseball season, a...
CARL YASTRZEMSKI I was a baseball fanatic,
BILL NYGREN![]()
In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.
BO JACKSON When I was growing up as a kid I was playing football or baseball or something else in the back yard...
BRIAN WELLS I was a Russian dancer in my elementary school production of 'Fiddler on the Roof' when I wa...
LIZZY CAPLAN I don't remember a single thing in my childhood that was not related in some way to building.
RENZO PIANO![]()
In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and l...
ERNST MAYR Doctor Who was a big part of my childhood so it was a great honour to be in it.
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CODY RINCKER
ALAN RITCHSON
Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player... PHIL KNIGHT
I was born to play baseball. ROBERTO CLEMENTE
I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interes... JOHN MALKOVICH
If they had rankings in baseball, maybe I would have been able to do the math and figure out my chan... JIM COURIER
I played baseball up until my freshman year of high school. That was my main sport. I played third b... MACKLEMORE
Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball. MICKEY MANTLE My big break was back in the third grade playing the third monkey in 'Horton Hears a Who.'
SEBASTIAN ARCELUS
Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny thing... ADAM SANDLER
When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be... ROBERT FROST
Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life. TY COBB
I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player. I was born to play baseball. ROBERTO CLEMENTE
I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball. BARRY BONDS I never really took to golf until I was in the sixth grade, because I was always playing baseball.
ANDY BENSON I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only...
ICHIRO SUZUKI
I would say I was jock. I went to Sierra College. I was a big baseball player. Getting into the MLB ... RYAN GUZMAN
And I was the only black kid in my school for almost all of my childhood, until I was a teenager. So... AISHA TYLER I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint...
CHRIS STAPLETON
Everything was brighter and more colorful in those years, as if my childhood was ending in an explos... ROMAN PAYNE My first interest in baseball is the welfare of baseball itself. My second is the Cincinnati Reds, a...
WARREN GILES
I lived the baseball life as a kid, with my dad in it. And I lived the baseball life as an adult, be... CAL RIPKEN, JR.
I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point. JOSE CANSECO
Jim Crow was king . . . and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in... LOU BROCK That was my best time in baseball there. He's the best ever.
ERIC GAGNE My dad played baseball and my uncle and pretty much everybody, so I was brought up early, at a young...
ERIC SOGARD When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
TAKERU KOBAYASHI
I grew up in baseball stadiums. It was my two brothers and baseball around me all the time. I knew n... STEPHANIE SIGMAN I was playing baseball but thinking about football. My heart wasn't in it.
QUAN COSBY I wanted to play baseball. That was probably my best sport, but I wasn't allowed to play Little Leag...
OLIVER PURNELL
I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw. WILLIE MAYS
When I went to high school, my most passionate desire was to be a professional baseball player. But ... TOM WOLFE He was a baseball player and they called him Cubby Bear.
LETA FICKES
I was late to the Knicks. My dad was a big fan. But I first started watching baseball; I became a Re... NOAH BAUMBACH
The best mistake I ever made was believing that I was stupid. It was a childhood thing, but it playe... BARBARA CORCORAN
My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's ... ICE T
I was a baseball player, I taught baseball, and all of a sudden I was in the business world. Now I u... WILLIE MAYS My first year of T-ball, Richard and Donna Elliott were my coaches and they taught me how to put on ...
ERIK KOROP I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until th...
DAVID CONE I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.
BOB UECKER
My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade schoo... NANCY PELOSI
I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were ... WAYNE GRETZKY
Hopefully, they can say, "There goes the best baseball player in the world." I honestly believe I di... WILLIE MAYS That was a good baseball team. We played really well and I think Troy really shines (in big games).
CLYDE METCALF
My favorite book is 'Go Away Big Green Monster.' I wrote it for my granddaughter Adrian, who... ED EMBERLEY
Judging ballplayers and turning in reports, giving my opinion of who will get to the big leagues and... EARL WEAVER I spent nine months trying to convince him he was a baseball player.
ANDY HARMON
I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistical... STEVEN WRIGHT
It wasn't really until the 10th or 11th grade when I started to play well, and football took the... CALVIN JOHNSON I love to play baseball. I'm a baseball player. I've always been a baseball player. I'm ...
RYNE SANDBERG I love baseball - 'Moneyball' was my favorite book when I was 13.
DYLAN O'BRIEN A lot of people ask me what was my best moment in baseball, ... This was it. This was No. 1.
EDDIE PEREZ I was born in South Bend, and I've been a Hoosier all my life.
JACKIE WALORSKI If you ask any coach they'll say the same thing in any game, whether it's soccer, baseball or hockey...
BO WILLIAMS The Capone era. That was my time. Capone was a big baseball fan. He'd walk into the ballpark lik...
BILLY HERMAN My first team was the Vipers 10-and-under. My dad played baseball. My grandmother's uncle played pro...
BRITTANY HIPPLE Just flush it if something bad happens. That's the way I was raised to play baseball.
DREW POMERANZ I used to play baseball, so when Bruce cut baseball, my initial reaction was not to like the decisio...
GARY THOMPSON One of my heroes growing up was Jackie Robinson. My mom, an ardent baseball fan from whom I got my l...
JARED POLIS That was by far the coldest I've ever been on a baseball field. The wind was in my face the whole ti...
MATT MCGRAW This is where I played the first four years of my career in the big leagues, ... and it was a beauti...
JOSE CRUZ
My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely. TRUMAN CAPOTE
When I was growing up, the first thing I wanted to be was a cowboy. That lasted till I was about ten... JERRY SPINELLI I could describe my career in two words: who knew. I was on the path to becoming a professional base...
SHEMAR MOORE He was pretty much the best hitter in the game -- probably the best all-around player in the game. H...
DAVID BELL Actually, I didn't know that. I like to name my characters after baseball players. Alan Trammell of ...
JOE ESZTERHAS I was planning to be a baseball player until I ran into something called a curveball. And that set m...
BEN CHANDLER I don't want there to be any confusion about this. My love and dedication is 100 percent with baseba...
BEN BROUSSARD
I had started law school at Florida State University as a part-timer. I would go two quarters, and t... TONY LA RUSSA While Richard was listening to music in the basement, I was out playing baseball and football, and p...
KAREN CARPENTER Willie Mays was the best baseball player I ever saw. He could do anything.
DOUG HARVEY
For my children, they spent 15 to 20 years of their life in baseball. And Ruth and I spent so many y... NOLAN RYAN Of all the unusual things my father did in baseball, ... my favorite hands down was the exploding sc...
MIKE VEECK This was the most humiliating day of my baseball career.
ICHIRO SUZUKI There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only proble...
AL GALLAGHER That's not in the cards, for the same reason a baseball player doesn't have the same bat as any othe...
DICK RUGGE Rod was a very meaningful person in my life, instrumental in my becoming the player that I was and t...
MARK MCGWIRE I did grow up with Kurt Russell as a Dad, who was a professional baseball player, with all boys. All...
KATE HUDSON
I've been playing baseball since I was 5 or 6 years old. I've been on a schedule, pretty muc... DEREK JETER
God’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I have a passion fo... JONATHAN EDWARDS If you focus on the statistics, that's the worst thing you can do in your life as a baseball player,
PLACIDO POLANCO Football was important, but baseball is my first love. I know I can play baseball longer for health ...
ROBERT BROOKS Jim is an outstanding baseball player. He's a consummate baseball player. He's not real big, he's no...
JOE JORDANO I remember baseball cards I collected of Greg when I was in Little League. Now, to be in the same lo...
DENNIS ANDERSON
I was a baseball guy. Mom wouldn't let me play football when I was little because she was scared... CALVIN JOHNSON I was playing baseball, and I tripped over first base - I'm very clumsy - and I fell and broke m...
CHRISTOPHER MINTZ-PLASSE
I was sort of traumatized by girls in the third grade. Because there was a girl in my third grade cl... STEVE CARELL There was a lot of great baseball, and there was a lot of ugly baseball. It was like a heavyweight f...
DONNIE BRANCH I turned around and realized my best hitter was at the plate. That was a big risk to take. I should ...
LOU TREDEAU What's odd is that nobody in my family is an artist. My cousins are, like, secretaries at law fi...
MELONIE DIAZ
I grew up in Tuscany in a very poor family. My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, ... ROBERTO BENIGNI Like a lot of people who get into coaching, I was impacted by the people in my life. Certainly my fa...
KIRK FERENTZ
I remember I was a scared rookie, hitting .220 after the first three months of my baseball season, a... CARL YASTRZEMSKI I was a baseball fanatic,
BILL NYGREN
In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there. BO JACKSON When I was growing up as a kid I was playing football or baseball or something else in the back yard...
BRIAN WELLS I was a Russian dancer in my elementary school production of 'Fiddler on the Roof' when I wa...
LIZZY CAPLAN I don't remember a single thing in my childhood that was not related in some way to building.
RENZO PIANO
In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and l... ERNST MAYR Doctor Who was a big part of my childhood so it was a great honour to be in it.
SIMON PEGG There were a few days I didn't think I would play again. My leg was three times as big with metal pl...
CODY RINCKER
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