Baseball
Main article: 2013 in baseball See also: 2013 Major League Baseball season and 2013 Nippon Professional Baseball season- March 2–19: The 2013 World Baseball Classic will be held. First-round matches will be played in Japan, Taiwan, Puerto Rico, and the United States. Japan and the US will host the second round, and the final will be in San Francisco.
- July 16: The 2013 MLB All-Star Game will be held at Citi Field, home of the New York Mets.
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Famous quotes containing the word baseball:
“Spooky things happen in houses densely occupied by adolescent boys. When I checked out a four-inch dent in the living room ceiling one afternoon, even the kid still holding the baseball bat looked genuinely baffled about how he possibly could have done it.”
—Mary Kay Blakely (20th century)
“How, in one short century, has this ersatz sport so strangled the consciousness of the country in the grip of its flabby tentacles that the mention of women’s baseball gets no reaction other than blank amazement?”
—Darlene Mehrer, As quoted in Women in Baseball. Ch. 6, by Gai Ingham Berlage (1994)
“Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)