If you build it, he will come. Whether you recall Gary Cooper playing Lou Gehrig in Pride of the Yankees or Tom Hanks simply mentioning he was the coach of the high school baseball team in Saving Private Ryan , there have been some great quotations in and about baseball movies. You know it doesn't have to mean anything, it's just beautiful to watch. People all say that I've had a bad break. But today, today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.
Strikeouts are boring and besides that, they're facist.
Throw some ground balls. They're more democratic. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time.