Showing posts with label Baseball. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Baseball. Show all posts

05 August 2009

Gimme a break

Milwaukee Brewers’ Prince Fielder storms the Dodgers’ clubhouse? Gimme a break. Because he was hit by a pitch in retaliation?  I’ll remind readers of a quote by Tyrus Raymond Cobb:

 

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Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.

Baseball is a man’s sport. The fact is if you’re going to stand over the inside of the plate, you better be ready to take a few for the team… and when you do, you handle it on the field and leave it on the field. These guys playing today are pansies…

08 May 2009

Dom DiMaggio : RIP

The little brother of the Yankee Clipper, Joe DiMaggio has passed away this morning at 1 am according to this release from FoxSports.com. This is a sad day in Boston and for Red Sox fans around the nation. The “Little Professor” played with some of the all time greats in baseball, including the Splendid Splinter Ted Williams.  Here’s to ya Dom!!!