Happy Friday! With all the stuff going on in the world, baseball is a pretty trivial thing. However, sometimes a little distraction from all that is going on is nice. The baseball players and owners have reached an agreement and soon the crack of the bat will again be heard as players get active in spring training. So, let’s turn to one of the sages of baseball this week for some quotations from Bob Uecker.
Enjoy!
“I knew when my career was over. In 1965, my baseball card came out with no picture.”
“The best way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until the ball stops rolling and then pick it up.”
“I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don’t even get printed.”
“They said I was such a great prospect that they were sending me to a winter league to sharpen up. When I stepped off the plane, I was in Greenland.”
“I had a great shoe contract and glove contract with a company who paid me a lot of money never to be seen using their stuff.”
“Career highlights? I had two. I got an intentional walk from Sandy Koufax and I got out of a rundown against the Mets.”
“I led the league in go get ’em next time.”
“When I looked to the third base coach for a sign, he turned his back on me.”
“In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.”
“Baseball hasn’t forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven’t lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times.”
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
“Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.” ~ George F. Will (American Newspaper Columnist, Writer, and Journalist)
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