Baseball Terminology Quotes

Solo homers usually come with no one on base.

I don't get hit a ton on the button.

Kent Abbott is in the on-deck circuit.

Larry Lintz steals second standing up. He slid, but he didn't have to.

A pitcher is not a ballplayer.

I hit a grand slam off Ron Herbel and when his manager Herman Franks came out to get him, he was bringing Herbel's suitcase.

I'm a fly-ball pitcher, guys.

One time in spring training, we had the hit-and-run on, and Carl Erskine threw me a curve and I struck out into a double play. I came back to the bench and Casey [Stengel] said, 'next time, tra-la-la.' I didn't know what tra-la-la meant, but next time up, I hit a line drive, right into a double play. When I sat down, Casey came over and said, 'Like I told you, tra-la-la.'

To me, hitting the ball in the air means hitting a line drive, and I hit far more balls in the air.

About a veteran player thrown out trying to steal second: There was larceny in his heart, but his legs were honest.

[A knuckleball is] a curve ball that doesn't give a damn.

Montefusco bare-hands it and throws him out. That grounder will make you a traveling salesman in a hurry!

My idea of a 'super bowl' is when the catcher is standing in front of the plate with the ball, waiting for me as I round third...and I make him drop it. That's a quality Super Bowl.

Take everything you can get over in center. The Dago's heel is hurting pretty bad.

Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray.

He (Sandy Koufax) throws a 'radio ball,' a pitch you hear, but you don't see.

I didn't even realize it was a grand slam (number thirty-one) because I was mentally preparing myself for Andy Benes because he struck me out the first time.

You're only as smart as your ERA.

I don't know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.

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

Jacks are home runs. So are dongs, bombs, and big flies. Baseball people express their fondness for a thing by thinking up lots of different ways to say it.

I don't know anything about baseball.

For me, feeling good is line drives to left field.

If you're a baseball fan and you don't know what BP is, you're working in a mine without one of those helmets with the lights on it.

I bat righty.