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Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That's baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, 'I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.'
— Ernie Harwell
Tags: face, world, man, myself

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Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm.
— Ernie Harwell
Tags: first, farm, baseball, dad
There's a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus Wagner hit a triple in Pittsburgh 46 years ago. That's baseball.
— Ernie Harwell
Tags: hit, who, baseball, man
Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream.
— Ernie Harwell
Tags: he, dream, baseball, experience
When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career.
— Ernie Harwell
Tags: brooklyn, brilliant, height, career
Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic.
— Ernie Harwell
Tags: skill, baseball, game, man
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