Home Run Baker quotes
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“I heard a fella say once he'd rather have a rose bud when he was alive than to have a whole rose garden thrown his way after he is gone. It looks like they've (the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1935) thrown the roses my way while I'm still here.”
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“I hope I never do anything to hurt baseball.”
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“I hope he (Babe Ruth) lives to hit one-hundred homers in a season. I wish him all the luck in the world. He has everybody else, including myself, hopelessly outclassed.”
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“The farmer doesn't care for the pitchers' battle that resolves itself into a checkers game. The farmer loves the dramatic, and slugging is more dramatic than even the cleverest pitching.”
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“Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.”
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“I'm the type of guy who likes to be there 24-7. I'm Mr. Roses.”
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“Something with inner beauty will live forever, like the scent of a rose.”
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Source : Alfred Austin (1885). “At the Gate of the Convent: And Other Poems”
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