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This book is about a real-life female baseball player who struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.
ANN COPPOLA It's sort of like being traded for Babe Ruth or the guy who came out for Lou Gehrig, isn't it?
MIKE JOHNSON So up came Gehrig. He was a sharp hitter. You could double him, too, now and then, if the ball was h...
CARL HUBBELL Carl Junction and Seneca is a big rivalry. I quickly found that out.
BRAD SHORTER![]()
Don't worry about it. Babe Ruth struck out on occasion, too.
WALTER ANNENBERG It was funny, when I thought of it afterward, how Ruth and Gehrig looked as they stood there. The Ba...
CARL HUBBELL![]()
Don't worry about it. Babe Ruth struck out on occasion, too.
WALTER ANNENBERG Brian was the oldest, I was in the middle and Carl was the baby. I was the troublemaker. Brian got g...
DENNIS WILSON![]()
Yankee Stadium is a natural venue for another lesson: You won't succeed all the time. Even Ruth,...
JANET YELLEN Babe Ruth is an icon, in sports and in our society.
ALEX RODRIGUEZ![]()
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively
VOLTAIRE This is an exciting day for ING,'' said Fred S. Hubbell, chairman of ING Americas and ING Asia/Pacif...
HARTFORD COURANT![]()
Babe Ruth was not afraid to strike out. And it was this fearlessness that contributed to his remarka...
SIMON SINEK Carl did an excellent job. We'll start over this week. With any of our backups, special teams are a ...
LOVIE SMITH![]()
Probably the toughest time in my life was - was standing there with Ann as we hugged each other and ...
MITT ROMNEY![]()
An outfield composed of Cobb, Speaker and Ruth, even with Ruth, lacks the combined power of DiMaggio...
CONNIE MACK The heart was knocked out of the yard when we lost our four biggest owners in quick succession,
WILLIAM JARVIS Well, I could imagine how they felt with two on, nobody out and Ruth at bat. To strike him out was t...
CARL HUBBELL I never thought I was a writer. My teacher, Ruth Johnson, pulled it out of me.
REBECCA ALLEN The Travis Ranch in Ruth, Calif., is less than $1,000 an acre.
BILLY LONG God is too big to be accommodated in your eyeball, you don't have to see Him in order to believe in ...
LEONARD ONDIGO![]()
Then Mr. Gehrig is a badly underpaid player.
JOE DIMAGGIO Local ownership there was critical, and it was crucial to Carl Lindner.
BUD SELIG They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen...
CARL HUBBELL Besides, there were 50,000 fans or more there, and they wanted to see the best you've got. There...
CARL HUBBELL If I'm playing cards for pennies, I want to win.
CARL HUBBELL A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
CARL HUBBELL As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star gam...
CARL HUBBELL Besides, there were 50,000 fans or more there, and they wanted to see the best you've got. There was...
CARL HUBBELL The screwball's an unnatural pitch. Nature never intended a man to turn his hand like that throwing ...
CARL HUBBELL I slipped and the ball got away from me with nothing on it. Maybe it's lucky it hit Lou, instead of ...
CARL HUBBELL But I never was a strikeout pitcher like Bob Feller or Dizzy Dean or Dazzy Vance.
CARL HUBBELL They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen ver...
CARL HUBBELL My style of pitching was to make the other team hit the ball, but on the ground.
CARL HUBBELL If I'm playing cards for pennies, I want to win.
CARL HUBBELL![]()
Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky wa...
LOIS LOWRY 'The New Jedi Order' was a pure publishing project: a single massive story - virtually one h...
MATTHEW STOVER The first thing people took out were three pictures of Ruth and I,
CRAIG MILLER![]()
Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.
THORNTON WILDER![]()
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
BABE RUTH We started the game out very well and, ironically enough, perhaps too well. We connected on a corner...
GREG WALL saddened by today's events involving Webb Hubbell and would like to express their concern for Webb a...
JAMES KENNEDY By agreeing on the terms and conditions of ownership and succession early on in the evolution of an ...
JUDITH CONE Ruth was my girlfriend's name at the time.
CHARLES SINGLEY The subpoena served on Mr. Hubbell was the quintessential fishing expedition, ... The independent co...
JAMES ROBERTSON He said, 'Carl, you're not going to like this, because there's not big dollars involved, but it's go...
CARL ETTER![]()
She's not an overpowering pitcher but she pitches in spots and hits her spots well. I think she was ...
LISA KIRK Ruth was a novelist, and novelists, Oliver asserted, should have cats and books.
RUTH OZEKI![]()
It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and...
SIGMUND FREUD We haven't been scoring runs. We've had enough good pitching. Our offense needs to pick up the pitch...
LUIS SALAZAR With Sam, you went in and basically he turned on a tape recorder, let it run until it was out, and w...
STAN PERKINS![]()
In the 1970s, we had Carl Sagan, and he was so suave with his turtleneck and his tweed jacket. And h...
GREG GRAFFIN We almost had the momentum, but then the roof fell in and it was too big of a mountain to climb. Eve...
BILL DETTMAN![]()
Babe Ruth was great. I'm just lucky.
REGGIE JACKSON![]()
But looking back, the fact was that I had a couple of big hits too quickly and it was simply too muc...
PAULA COLE![]()
I sat next to Carl Bernstein throughout Watergate, and Woodward would come over, and they would argu...
RONALD KESSLER Second place wouldn't be that important, except in this case second place is held by Babe Ruth, who ...
JOHN THORN![]()
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
GEORGE ORWELL![]()
The passenger liner Ossifar Distana was one of the most luxurious of its kind in space anywhere. It ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA![]()
It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and...
SIGMUND FREUD So that was striking, that was great.
HEIDI CLARK I always knew Carl had the game to play on tour. But I wasn't too sure about myself.
TIM CLARK Do not let the endless succession of small things crowd great ideals out of sight and out of mind.
CHARLOTTE M. MASON My big frustration in New Order was that they played the same tracks all the time.
PETER HOOK![]()
Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.
STEPHEN SONDHEIM We needed to make some plays that we missed in order to win. We had a few mental mistakes, but I was...
BRIAN LEMPOLA![]()
Remember that the bad days are not forever, and the trouble which seems so terrible at last.
GEORGE ORWELL![]()
His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand;
His manners were gentle, complying, and bland;
...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.
WAITE HOYT We have an outstanding freshman class this year. They have come through the ranks together in Babe R...
CHRIS VERMEER Carl Yastrzemski was the best all-around player. He could run, throw and hit. He had the ability to ...
AL KALINE![]()
We just bought this house. It's too big. It's like 400,000 square feet, or something. We got an indo...
ADAM SANDLER![]()
You can't do that to Carl.
E. L. DOCTOROW One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can ...
GEORG BUCHNER This was a big game for sure. We knew we had to win this in order to keep pace in the West Division,...
DAN DAWSON Once the separation with Jeremy and the flat happened I got back up to Todd and then I was just kind...
ADAM CRAIG If you dig yourself too big of a hole in this league, it's too hard to get out. This was big for the...
ANDREW WILSON certain ambiguities in presidential succession.
BRIAN BAIRD![]()
I never dreamed about being an actor, because that was out of reach. Coming from a small town that w...
HERSCHEL WALKER There was already an order from a customer in Maryland.
LUCY POSTINS Getting four hits and striking out 11 times is the reason we lost.
TIM BROWN You've got to give Carl Junction a lot of credit. They came out and kept getting after us.
YANCEY LITTLE [With the exception of Kurt Busch , who was involved in an accident, Carl Edwards was the only Chase...
CARL EDWARDS![]()
The future arrives too soon and in the wrong order
ALVIN TOFFLER I was always a big fan of Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner's '2000-Year-Old Man' sketch. I thi...
SCOTT AUKERMAN Italian-Americans in New York had not been in much of a flag-waving mood prior to DiMaggio's arrival...
JONATHAN EIG The president and first lady are very saddened by the developments in this matter and feel bad for W...
JAMES KENNEDY![]()
I recently read some of the transcripts of Nixon's Watergate tapes, and they spent hours trying ...
BOB WOODWARD![]()
Carl Jung said that only an introvert could see "the unfathomable stupidity of man
MICHAEL FINKEL What we wanted to do was make succession-planning a process for these companies rather than an event...
CHARLES GALLAGHER![]()
In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking...
TED NELSON The fish was too big and it flopped out. I tried again and got enough in the net that we got it in. ...
STEVE DALLY![]()
Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.
BABE RUTH![]()
the world was too big, too full of splintered dreams.
SARAH J. MAAS I think this is an important report which allows for stable imperial succession,
JUNICHIRO KOIZUMI Behind all odds and failure, he was an ant, but he never look back like a river striking on a new pa...
ROGER HAURIGI![]()
For my books of nonfiction I write about subjects I find fascinating. I've been a Yankees and a ...
DAVID A. ADLER I was very keen on people like Elvis, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Gene Vincent.
ROBIN TROWER Not too shabby. Getting out of that first inning was huge for him, because you could see he was nerv...
ALAN TRAMMELL When I was a teenager in Leeds I was a big Joy Division fan, so I loved New Order too. 'World In Mot...
DANNY MCNAMARA
ANN COPPOLA It's sort of like being traded for Babe Ruth or the guy who came out for Lou Gehrig, isn't it?
MIKE JOHNSON So up came Gehrig. He was a sharp hitter. You could double him, too, now and then, if the ball was h...
CARL HUBBELL Carl Junction and Seneca is a big rivalry. I quickly found that out.
BRAD SHORTER
Don't worry about it. Babe Ruth struck out on occasion, too. WALTER ANNENBERG It was funny, when I thought of it afterward, how Ruth and Gehrig looked as they stood there. The Ba...
CARL HUBBELL
Don't worry about it. Babe Ruth struck out on occasion, too. WALTER ANNENBERG Brian was the oldest, I was in the middle and Carl was the baby. I was the troublemaker. Brian got g...
DENNIS WILSON
Yankee Stadium is a natural venue for another lesson: You won't succeed all the time. Even Ruth,... JANET YELLEN Babe Ruth is an icon, in sports and in our society.
ALEX RODRIGUEZ
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively VOLTAIRE This is an exciting day for ING,'' said Fred S. Hubbell, chairman of ING Americas and ING Asia/Pacif...
HARTFORD COURANT
Babe Ruth was not afraid to strike out. And it was this fearlessness that contributed to his remarka... SIMON SINEK Carl did an excellent job. We'll start over this week. With any of our backups, special teams are a ...
LOVIE SMITH
Probably the toughest time in my life was - was standing there with Ann as we hugged each other and ... MITT ROMNEY
An outfield composed of Cobb, Speaker and Ruth, even with Ruth, lacks the combined power of DiMaggio... CONNIE MACK The heart was knocked out of the yard when we lost our four biggest owners in quick succession,
WILLIAM JARVIS Well, I could imagine how they felt with two on, nobody out and Ruth at bat. To strike him out was t...
CARL HUBBELL I never thought I was a writer. My teacher, Ruth Johnson, pulled it out of me.
REBECCA ALLEN The Travis Ranch in Ruth, Calif., is less than $1,000 an acre.
BILLY LONG God is too big to be accommodated in your eyeball, you don't have to see Him in order to believe in ...
LEONARD ONDIGO
Then Mr. Gehrig is a badly underpaid player. JOE DIMAGGIO Local ownership there was critical, and it was crucial to Carl Lindner.
BUD SELIG They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen...
CARL HUBBELL Besides, there were 50,000 fans or more there, and they wanted to see the best you've got. There...
CARL HUBBELL If I'm playing cards for pennies, I want to win.
CARL HUBBELL A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
CARL HUBBELL As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star gam...
CARL HUBBELL Besides, there were 50,000 fans or more there, and they wanted to see the best you've got. There was...
CARL HUBBELL The screwball's an unnatural pitch. Nature never intended a man to turn his hand like that throwing ...
CARL HUBBELL I slipped and the ball got away from me with nothing on it. Maybe it's lucky it hit Lou, instead of ...
CARL HUBBELL But I never was a strikeout pitcher like Bob Feller or Dizzy Dean or Dazzy Vance.
CARL HUBBELL They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen ver...
CARL HUBBELL My style of pitching was to make the other team hit the ball, but on the ground.
CARL HUBBELL If I'm playing cards for pennies, I want to win.
CARL HUBBELL
Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky wa... LOIS LOWRY 'The New Jedi Order' was a pure publishing project: a single massive story - virtually one h...
MATTHEW STOVER The first thing people took out were three pictures of Ruth and I,
CRAIG MILLER
Life is an unbroken succession of false situations. THORNTON WILDER
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. BABE RUTH We started the game out very well and, ironically enough, perhaps too well. We connected on a corner...
GREG WALL saddened by today's events involving Webb Hubbell and would like to express their concern for Webb a...
JAMES KENNEDY By agreeing on the terms and conditions of ownership and succession early on in the evolution of an ...
JUDITH CONE Ruth was my girlfriend's name at the time.
CHARLES SINGLEY The subpoena served on Mr. Hubbell was the quintessential fishing expedition, ... The independent co...
JAMES ROBERTSON He said, 'Carl, you're not going to like this, because there's not big dollars involved, but it's go...
CARL ETTER
She's not an overpowering pitcher but she pitches in spots and hits her spots well. I think she was ... LISA KIRK Ruth was a novelist, and novelists, Oliver asserted, should have cats and books.
RUTH OZEKI
It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and... SIGMUND FREUD We haven't been scoring runs. We've had enough good pitching. Our offense needs to pick up the pitch...
LUIS SALAZAR With Sam, you went in and basically he turned on a tape recorder, let it run until it was out, and w...
STAN PERKINS
In the 1970s, we had Carl Sagan, and he was so suave with his turtleneck and his tweed jacket. And h... GREG GRAFFIN We almost had the momentum, but then the roof fell in and it was too big of a mountain to climb. Eve...
BILL DETTMAN
Babe Ruth was great. I'm just lucky. REGGIE JACKSON
But looking back, the fact was that I had a couple of big hits too quickly and it was simply too muc... PAULA COLE
I sat next to Carl Bernstein throughout Watergate, and Woodward would come over, and they would argu... RONALD KESSLER Second place wouldn't be that important, except in this case second place is held by Babe Ruth, who ...
JOHN THORN
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. GEORGE ORWELL
The passenger liner Ossifar Distana was one of the most luxurious of its kind in space anywhere. It ... CHRISTINA ENGELA
It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and... SIGMUND FREUD So that was striking, that was great.
HEIDI CLARK I always knew Carl had the game to play on tour. But I wasn't too sure about myself.
TIM CLARK Do not let the endless succession of small things crowd great ideals out of sight and out of mind.
CHARLOTTE M. MASON My big frustration in New Order was that they played the same tracks all the time.
PETER HOOK
Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. STEPHEN SONDHEIM We needed to make some plays that we missed in order to win. We had a few mental mistakes, but I was...
BRIAN LEMPOLA
Remember that the bad days are not forever, and the trouble which seems so terrible at last. GEORGE ORWELL
His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand;
His manners were gentle, complying, and bland;
... OLIVER GOLDSMITH The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.
WAITE HOYT We have an outstanding freshman class this year. They have come through the ranks together in Babe R...
CHRIS VERMEER Carl Yastrzemski was the best all-around player. He could run, throw and hit. He had the ability to ...
AL KALINE
We just bought this house. It's too big. It's like 400,000 square feet, or something. We got an indo... ADAM SANDLER
You can't do that to Carl. E. L. DOCTOROW One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can ...
GEORG BUCHNER This was a big game for sure. We knew we had to win this in order to keep pace in the West Division,...
DAN DAWSON Once the separation with Jeremy and the flat happened I got back up to Todd and then I was just kind...
ADAM CRAIG If you dig yourself too big of a hole in this league, it's too hard to get out. This was big for the...
ANDREW WILSON certain ambiguities in presidential succession.
BRIAN BAIRD
I never dreamed about being an actor, because that was out of reach. Coming from a small town that w... HERSCHEL WALKER There was already an order from a customer in Maryland.
LUCY POSTINS Getting four hits and striking out 11 times is the reason we lost.
TIM BROWN You've got to give Carl Junction a lot of credit. They came out and kept getting after us.
YANCEY LITTLE [With the exception of Kurt Busch , who was involved in an accident, Carl Edwards was the only Chase...
CARL EDWARDS
The future arrives too soon and in the wrong order ALVIN TOFFLER I was always a big fan of Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner's '2000-Year-Old Man' sketch. I thi...
SCOTT AUKERMAN Italian-Americans in New York had not been in much of a flag-waving mood prior to DiMaggio's arrival...
JONATHAN EIG The president and first lady are very saddened by the developments in this matter and feel bad for W...
JAMES KENNEDY
I recently read some of the transcripts of Nixon's Watergate tapes, and they spent hours trying ... BOB WOODWARD
Carl Jung said that only an introvert could see "the unfathomable stupidity of man MICHAEL FINKEL What we wanted to do was make succession-planning a process for these companies rather than an event...
CHARLES GALLAGHER
In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking... TED NELSON The fish was too big and it flopped out. I tried again and got enough in the net that we got it in. ...
STEVE DALLY
Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back. BABE RUTH
the world was too big, too full of splintered dreams. SARAH J. MAAS I think this is an important report which allows for stable imperial succession,
JUNICHIRO KOIZUMI Behind all odds and failure, he was an ant, but he never look back like a river striking on a new pa...
ROGER HAURIGI
For my books of nonfiction I write about subjects I find fascinating. I've been a Yankees and a ... DAVID A. ADLER I was very keen on people like Elvis, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Gene Vincent.
ROBIN TROWER Not too shabby. Getting out of that first inning was huge for him, because you could see he was nerv...
ALAN TRAMMELL When I was a teenager in Leeds I was a big Joy Division fan, so I loved New Order too. 'World In Mot...
DANNY MCNAMARA
Some people grow under responsibility, others merely swell. 
Healthy camel crickets spend a lot of their waking hours grooming, so I have learned to recognize th... 
Our human calendars take little notice of such dates, but nighthawk migrations tell of shortening da... 
In the wild, those traits that are adaptive for survival and reproductive advantage are brought out ... 
The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it. 
Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narro... 
At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowa... 
There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation... 
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniu... 
Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about ... 
I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, ... 
A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. 
Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of ... 
The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for... 
I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, o... 
The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation and a conte... 
If she America forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if ... 
The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, My country, right or wrong. In one sens... 
Consider: if you incorporate those tropical countries with the Republic of the United States, you wi... 
I'm very serious about becoming a dramatic actor. I don't want to play cameo parts walking o... 
Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires int... 
Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon. 
I was lucky enough to have the talent to play baseball. That's how I treated my career. I didn&#... 
You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out. 