A. Bartlett Giamatti Quotes

It took him 75 steps to get from third to home. I thought we were going to have to go out there and help him. A lot of players start thinking double then maybe wind up with a triple because the outfielder slips.

Just getting to first base seems to be a problem for you two," Cam couldn't resist saying.

I cant think of anything more humiliating than losing a ballgame to a guy who steals home on you. It happened to me one time against Kansas City. I had a 2-2 count on the hitter - and Amos Otis broke from third. The pitch was a ball and slid in safe. I felt like a nickel.

Every hero must return home. Starks to Winterfell. Harry to Privet Drive. Luke Skywalker to Tattoine. Katniss to District twelve. The fun is in seeing how they return.

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.

I always tried to watch the pitcher and his complete windup from the moment he had the ball in his glove all the way through his motion, and tried to follow it all the way out of his hand, all the way to home plate.

I love talking about baserunning.

I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.

Certain guys, they can see a guy do a certain thing with their glove and know what pitch is coming. I couldn't do that. But I can get on first base and I can tell you by his move if that pitcher is going to first base or home plate every time.

There's nobody on my ball club that doesn't go from first to third on a base hit, or from second to home. Every time you steal a base, you're taking a gamble on getting thrown out, and taking the bat out of the hitter's hand.

In baseball the object is to go home! And to be safe! - I hope I'll be safe at home!

You might as well go in and start getting dressed. I'm going to hit his first pitch for a home run.

And it's a long drive down the line to centerfield.

You must go on a long journey before you can really find out how wonderful home is.

And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our own feet, and learn to be at home.

Trailing 5-1, the Padres added an insurance run in the eighth inning.

as roads go, the road home is as good as any.

A good time to hit is with men on base, because the pitcher ain't got no place to put you. He's going to get that ball around there somewhere. He don't want to walk you.

That's what the American odyssey is really about: Leaving home. Leaving home and coming home, and trying to understand the difference.

Maybe at the heart of all our traveling is the dream of someday, somehow, getting Home.

To tell the truth, I never think about a homer. I'm just thinking of the situation and what I've got to do when I go to the plate.

In football the object is to march into enemy territory and cross his goal. In baseball the object is to go home.

Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again.

As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home.

I'm seeing the ball well. I'm not trying for home runs. I'm trying to hit to right field more. When I do that, the home run comes.