Top 100 Team Baseball Quotes

#1. I used to think it would be neat to play my whole career with one team. But as a baseball player you want to come to the ballpark every day knowing you have a chance to win and that the games mean something.

Carlos Beltran

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#2. The more baseball the better. It is a healthful sport and develops team play and initiative, plus an independent attitude.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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#3. We're the best team in baseball, but not by much.

Sparky Anderson

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#4. When I was a kid I started a baseball team. I was a terrible player, but I put together a group of neighborhood kids. I started a hockey team. I put the kids together and got a sponsor. So I can always kind of organize people and get things done.

Jerry Bruckheimer

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#5. In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's.

Ernie Harwell

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#6. It was hard to know which of Billy's qualities was most important to his team's success: his energy, his resourcefulness, his intelligence, or his ability to scare the living shit out of even very large professional baseball players.

Michael Lewis

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#7. If you managed a baseball team, would you listen more closely to the team accountant or the director of player personnel?

Jack Welch

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#8. The French don't have a baseball team. And if they did, there'd only be a left field, and no one would be safe.

Robin Williams

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#9. However, more important to all of that: the players played the game as a true team. There are many teams in baseball, but not all play as a team. Many merely play as a group of talented athletes, which is a huge difference over the course of a long season.

Michael Delaware

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#10. When I took the job as the manager of the Olympic team, I didn't take it because I was a Dodger. I did it because I was an American, and I wanted to bring that gold medal where it belongs in baseball, the United States. And that's exactly what our team did.

Tommy Lasorda

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#11. In baseball, you can hit 40 home runs on a single-A-league team and never get paid a thing. But in a hedge fund, you get paid on your batting average. So you go to the worst league you can find, where there's the least competition.

Julian Robertson

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#12. Everybody wants to be a professional baseball player and, sure, as a kid, I wanted to do that. But once I got cut from my high school team, I figured there wasn't much chance of that ever happening. I'm still in awe of it.

Mark Buehrle

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#13. When I joined an all-boys baseball team, my mom wasn't too happy. I proved to her (and to me) that I could do anything I set my mind to.

Mo'ne Davis

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#14. You can have the best team in baseball, and if nobody goes through the turnstiles, you've got to shut the doors down.

Tommy Lasorda

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#15. Hornergy' is Zen's term for the indomitable athletic edge powered by sexual restraint. The basketball, baseball and football teams haven't had a winning season in years. The table-tennis team, however, is undefeated.

Megan McCafferty

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#16. I have always had my doubts about any form of divine intervention in sports contests. The power of prayer may be remarkable in many other arenas, but why should God want my team to win instead of the other side? Isn't it insulting to request God to even take an interest in baseball?

Roger Ebert

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#17. Life is like the baseball season, where even the best team loses at least a third of its games, and even the worst team has its days of brilliance. The goal is not to win every game but to win more than you lose, and if you do that often enough, in the end you may find you have won it all.

Harold S. Kushner

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#18. I was for a short time on the baseball team as shortstop, where I was no good.

Herbert Hoover

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#19. Every member of our baseball team at West Point became a general: this proves the value of team sports.

Omar N. Bradley

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#20. No former player has owned a team in baseball.

Derek Jeter

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#21. The fact is, when I was 15 and a sophomore at high school, I played on the varsity baseball team for the college.

Johnny Mize

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#22. Baseball is a team sport played by individuals for themselves.

Joe Torre

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#23. Tampa Bay, like any other expansion team, toiled and persevered in its infancy - but today, minus the Devil, the Rays have become one of the most exciting teams in baseball.

Tucker Elliot

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#24. It's always an honor to work with the Twins Community Fund and be a part of all the good that they do. They help people in so many ways. To be part of not only a baseball team, but being a part of something where you're helping people who need help, that's what life is all about really.

Ron Gardenhire

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#25. A guy's definition of baseball: you don't have to buy the other team dinner to get game.

Jill Shalvis

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#26. Books lined the shelves of bookstores like kids standing in a row to play baseball or soccer, and mine was the gangly, unathletic kid that no one wanted on their team.

Yann Martel

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#27. When you ten, you know more about your team than you ever will know again.

Dan Shaughnessy

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#28. I had a job on college campus. I lost that job, but on my way home I heard an inner voice that said go out for the baseball team. I was a walk-on, and I was actually petrified as a walk-on because you're not an athlete.

Lou Brock

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#29. If you can't enjoy the game unless you are pretty sure your team is going to win, baseball is not the game for you. Remember, the best team in baseball in any year is going to be beaten about 60 times.

Daniel Okrent

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#30. Bob Gibson is the luckiest pitcher I ever saw. He always pitches when the other team doesn't score any runs.

Tim McCarver

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#31. Orioles fought with tigers, blue jays battled against angels, bear cubs warred with giants, and none of it made any sense. A baseball player was a man, and yet once he joined a team he was turned into an animal, a mutant being, or a spirit who lived in heaven next to God. According

Paul Auster

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#32. The World Series is something that rarely gets to a number of venues in professional baseball. And that's one problem because we want the fan base of particular cities to participate in the World Series, even though there may be a lull in the particular performance of the regional team.

Scott Boras

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#33. Come early and watch some of the game, that is if you can stand to see the home team soundly beaten." Bill's hypnotic blue eyes twinkled. I twinkled back

Suzanne M. Trauth

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#34. When I first came into baseball, people didn't want to hear that a team was a business. But it is. And the better the business is run, the healthier the team on the field is going to be.

Billy Beane

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#35. I was late to the Knicks. My dad was a big fan. But I first started watching baseball; I became a Red Sox fan. My dad was a Mets fan. I wanted to have my own team and league.

Noah Baumbach

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#36. I went to school every day, like everyone else, and I played baseball for my high school team. I was a part of a lot of different activities outside of school.

Jesse McCartney

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#37. It is the nature of being the general manager of a baseball team that you have to remain on familiar terms with people you are continually trying to screw.

Michael Lewis

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#38. I bet on the game of baseball and I bet on my team, even the mistakes I made, I have to take a different look at someone betting against their own team ... that's throwing the game.

Pete Rose

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#39. A fan without a team is like a hog without truffles - she has nothing to root for.

Carol Tavris

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#40. An almost inexorable baseball law: A Red Sox ship with a single leak will always find a way to sink No team is worshipped with such a perverse sense of fatality.

Thomas Boswell

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#41. My feeling is that when you're managing a baseball team, you have to pick the right people to play and then pray a lot.

Robin Roberts

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#42. I grew up in Westlake Villiage, a suburb of L.A. There was a guy there who was a fighter and was like, 'I'll teach you to box.' I started a little bit of boxing, then it crossed over into jiu-jitsu. I was into it for a little while, but then I started doing basketball, baseball, team sports.

Jonathan Lipnicki

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#43. Baseball is a team game but, at the same time, it's a very lonely game: unlike in soccer or basketball, where players roam around, in baseball everyone has their little plot of the field to tend. When the action comes to you, the spotlight is on you but no one can help you.

Chad Harbach

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#44. A baseball team is like a band. Because, conceptually, there are no heroes in baseball - there's just the team.

Cass McCombs

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#45. If two baseball players from the same hometown, on different teams, receive the same uniform number, it is not ironic. It is a coincidence. If Barry Bonds attains lifetime statistics identical to his father's, it will not be ironic. It will be a coincidence.

George Carlin

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#46. A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

David Ogilvy

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#47. I've got a fantasy-baseball team with my brother. But I have to admit, he does all the work.

David Einhorn

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#48. I had a chance to play for the Cuban national team during the 2009 World Baseball Classic, but at the time I never thought about leaving Cuba.

Yoenis Cespedes

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#49. Don't worry about your individual numbers. Worry about the team. If the team is successful, each of you will be successful, too.

Branch Rickey

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#50. Give me five players like Robinson and a pitcher and I'll beat any nine-man team in baseball.

Chuck Dressen

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#51. I went to college to be a jock and to play on the baseball team. And then, I got cut and realized that that was it for that. I was really small. The other guys were really big, on that team. I was a bit of a theater nerd, and I was an art history major.

Charlie Day

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#52. If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets - without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain - who average nearly $24 million a year in income - 'next year.'

Eric Alterman

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#53. What happens is that all your life you operated businesses in such a way that you could one day afford to buy a baseball team. And then you buy the team and forget all the business practices that enabled you to buy it.

George Steinbrenner

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#54. I'm a Baltimore guy. I've always loved Baltimore and always will love Baltimore, but baseball is baseball, and when you're playing on the opposing team, you're going to get booed.

Mark Teixeira

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#55. In baseball you have individual responsibility, and if you fail it, you get an error. But at the same time, your focus is on the common goal of the team to win. This is part of what resonates with people about baseball. This is how they would like society to work.

Jed S. Rakoff

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#56. It's hard to dismiss the obvious symmetry between Longo [Evan Longoria] and the franchise for which he's now the poster-child: for the player, Hondo Junior College to MLB All-Star ... for the team, worst to first.

Tucker Elliot

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#57. I was fortunate enough to have baseball to teach me the values relative to success. The sport gifted me with leadership and team building skills that translate in a relatable way in the world.

Willie Wilson

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#58. Did she go to Washington Redskins football games, or follow the Nats baseball team?

Ken Follett

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#59. Baseball and American football and hockey are all ahead because they have a history. The MLS is kind of new. So hopefully, in time, and with players coming and trying to develop the game, and the U.S. team also doing well - at the last World Cup, they finished above England and created some buzz.

Thierry Henry

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#60. If you want to get off this team you have to take a number.

Dave Revering

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#61. I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history..

Willem De Kooning

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#62. I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold, but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time. It wasn't until 1980 - I think I was 12 years old - that I thought, 'Wow that's what I want to do. I want to be on the Olympic team.'

Dan O'Brien

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#63. I never got to see the '27 Yankees. Everyone says that was the greatest team ever. But I think it would've been a great series if we'd have had the chance to play them.

Mickey Mantle

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#64. Yes, in baseball when the team stinks, you fire the manager. But you don't fire him because it rains. And you don't let the opposing team choose a new manager for you. And you don't fire him between innings. And replace him with a Viennese weightlifter.

Bill Maher

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#65. Not making the baseball team at West Point was one of the greatest disappointments of my life, maybe my greatest.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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#66. The best team I ever saw, and I really mean this, was the '61 Yankees.

Mickey Mantle

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#67. Well, there are three things that the average man thinks he can do better than anybody else. Build a fire, run a hotel and manage a baseball team.

Rocky Bridges

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#68. A lot of students just don't understand what's out there," she told me, shaking her head. "You have the kids who plan on being baseball players but don't even play on the high school team because the coach is mean to them.

J.D. Vance

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#69. Obviously, the only reason I'm where I am is because God has gifted me and He has seen fit to put me where I am. I have to honor that by using my influence and my status on the team and in the game of baseball for good and to His purpose.

Lance Berkman

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#70. When I'm traveling on tour, one of my favorite things to do is to throw a baseball cap on and go to a Target. The company has always been good to me. They've got such a great creative team.

Christina Aguilera

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#71. If the Cincinnati Reds were really the first major league baseball team, who did they play?

George Carlin

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#72. Open your heart to a baseball team and you're liable to get it broken.

Jane Heller

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#73. You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is the story of man, who was born to sorrow, whose sweetest songs tell of saddest thought, and who, if he is a hero, does nothing in life as becomingly as leaving it.

Roger Kahn

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#74. Assigning work projects based on an employee's strengths may be critical to your group's productivity. You may discover you had a Michael Jordan on your team but couldn't see it because you were only asking him to play baseball.

John Medina

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#75. You can't tell how much spirit a team has until it starts losing.

Rocky Colavito

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#76. There are several insights at the heart of the A's system that I think are wonderful for baseball. One, that it's a team game. That no one player is going to make that much of a difference to your team, so for god's sake don't go blow a quarter of your budget on one guy.

Michael Lewis

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#77. Never root for a team whose uniforms have elastic stretch waistbands.

Susan Sarandon

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#78. I wasn't ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff.

Balthazar Getty

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#79. Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball.

Ken Harrelson

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#80. Baseball's best teams lose about sixty-five times a season. It is not a game you can play with your teeth clenched.

George Will

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#81. What I miss when I'm away is the pride in baseball. Especially the pride of being on a team that wins.

Billy Martin

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#82. Despite the situation in Cuba, I had a chance to play on the national team; and compared to other baseball players and other people in Cuba, I had the opportunity to live at a level that was not very high class but in the middle.

Yoenis Cespedes

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#83. As much as we disliked the Yankees, fans and players alike, they were good for baseball. They consistently unsuccessful teams like the Browns, Senators, and A's paid a lot of their bills with those big crowds that poured through the gates when the Yankees came to town.

Bob Feller

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#84. I was not good at team sports, I have to say. I'm quite good at individual sports, but I was not good at team sports, so I wasn't good at baseball and football.

Tom Ford

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#85. Night baseball isn't an aberration. What's an aberration is a team that hasn't won a World Series since 1908. They tend to think of themselves as a little Williamsburg, a cute little replica of a major league franchise. Give me the Oakland A's, thank you very much. People who do it right.

George Will

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#86. The last time the Cubs won the World Series was 1908. The last time they were in one was 1945. Hey, any team can have a bad century.

Tom Trebelhorn

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#87. My baseball career ended in college.I played on the freshman team, but was becoming more drawn to intellectualism than athleticism, and so I gave up baseball, and it was perfect timing because baseball was going to give up me very soon.

Donald Trump

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

Jim Bouton

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#89. When a professional baseball team asks you to throw out the first pitch, that's an honor, and you do it.

Bubba Watson

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#90. I'm forever a Pittsburgh Pirates fan. Apparently I've picked the worst baseball team in the world.

Alex Pettyfer

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#91. When I was a kid, I have two dreams. I want to be a baseball player. Hometown, Hiroshima, has a Japanese baseball franchise team called Hiroshima Carps. You know, and then I want to be a sushi chef. I want to make own restaurant - sushi restaurant.

Masaharu Morimoto

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#92. You've got to have camaraderie or togetherness on a baseball team if you want to win.

Andy Pettitte

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#93. If I had to pick the greatest team player in baseball today-and I have some of the greats on my own club-I would have to pick Pie Traynor.

John McGraw

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#94. I think that when people join clubs as simple as a sorority or a fraternity, a football team, a baseball team, it's just - you want to be in a group. You want to be around people, you want to be with people.

Theo Rossi

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#95. I played on the 2001 team, the team that won the most games in the history of Major League Baseball and also I played on one of the worst teams of Major League Baseball.

Ichiro Suzuki

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#96. Boros is not with the team today because he's attending his daughter's funeral. Oh, wait, it's her wedding.

Jerry Coleman

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#97. Maybe I am the eye candy on the team, but the only mouth I plan on melting in is hers.

Collette West

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#98. Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player. But that dream came to a rude awakening when I got cut from my high school baseball team.

Phil Knight

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#99. The Indians franchise is more than a century old. It's been called the Blues, the Bronchos, and the Naps. It's also been called a lot worse during hard times when the team wasn't winning.

Tucker Elliot

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#100. A team of giants needs giant pitchers who throw good ideas but every pitcher needs an outstanding catcher. Without giant catchers, the ideas of the giant pitchers may eventually disappear.

Max De Pree

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