Philadelphia Baseball Wall

Famous quotes containing the words philadelphia, baseball and/or wall:

    “All the oxygen of the world was in them.
    All the feet of the babies of the world were in them.
    All the crotches of the angels of the world were in them.
    All the morning kisses of Philadelphia were in them.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “One of the baseball-team owners approached me and said: “If you become baseball commissioner, you’re going to have to deal with 28 big egos,” and I said, “For me, that’s a 72% reduction.””
    —George Mitchell (b. 1933)

    “Me in my vow’d
    Picture the sacred wall declares t’have hung
    My dank and dropping weeds
    To the stern God of Sea.”
    —Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65–8)