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• The pitcher wound up and he flang the ball at the batter.
  The batter swang and missed. The pitcher flang the ball again and this time the batter connected....
• Casey again: "You put a left handed batter up against a right handed pitcher and a right handed pitcher up against a left handed batter and on cloudy days you put up a fast pitcher and on warm days a slow pitcher.
• We was playin' the Homestead Grays in the city of Pitchburgh.
  Josh [Gibson] comes up in the last of the ninth with a man on and us a run behind....
• Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a Communist. -- Alvin Dark
• Announcer: ...the windup and a 2-2 pitch. Oh, no, wait a minute, the batter is calling for time.
  Looks like he's going to get himself a new bat....
• My first basename is George "Catfish" Metkovich from our 1952 Pittsburgh Pirates team, which lost 112 games.
  After a terrible series against the New York Giants, in which our center fielder made three throwing errors and let two balls get through his legs, manager Billy Meyer pleaded, "Can somebody think of something to help us win a game?...
• There was a man who enjoyed playing golf, and could occasionallly put up with taking in a round with his wife.
  One time (with his wife along) he was having an extremely bad round....