Base Ball

Famous quotes containing the words base and/or ball:

    “What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord,
    Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff
    That beetles o’er his base into the sea,
    And there assume some other horrible form
    Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason,
    And draw you into madness?”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The ball loved Flick.
    I saw him rack up thirty-eight or forty
    In one home game. His hands were like wild birds.”
    —John Updike (b. 1932)