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Baseball is very big with my people. It figures.
It's the only time we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot.

            Dick Gregory, From the Back of the Bus 

 

 

 

 

Bad pitches

I go up to hit.
    I hear people say I swing at bad pitches.
            If I can hit it, it is not a bad pitch.

                        Roberto Clemente 

A batting average over .300 for 13 of the 18 seasons he played,
     and he had 3,000 hits during his major league career. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Women in baseball

Then there’s Jackie Mitchell.
In 1931, while signed to the Chattanooga Lookouts
of the Southern Association’s Double-A league,
she pitched in an exhibition
game against the New York Yankees.
First batter she faced and struck out? Babe Ruth.
The second? Lou Gehrig.
Not too shabby for a one-pitch wonder
who had a nasty 12-6 curveball and great control.

        Nancy Doublin, No Girls Allowed: Why Aren't There Any Women In MLB?