Jim Bouton Baseball Quotations

The older they get, the better they were when they were younger.

Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches.

If you had a pill that would guarantee a pitcher 20 wins, but might take five years off his life, he'd take it.

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

You spend a good deal of your life gripping a baseball, and it turns out it was the other way around all the time.

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

It goes back to the old concept of town teams your guys: the mailman, the milkman, you know, the carpenter, the plumber. The popularity of vintage baseball will thrive on the backlash against the corporate, over-hyped, over-sold Major League Baseball.

It goes back to the old concept of town teams ù your guys: the mailman, the milkman, you know, the carpenter, the plumber. The popularity of vintage baseball will thrive on the backlash against the corporate, over-hyped, over-sold Major League Baseball.