I could always hit. I learned to hit with a broomstick and a ball of tape and I could always get that bat on the ball.
When I wasn't working on Broadway, I worked in a Bat Mitzvah dress shop and was the Cinderella of the shop - always cleaning and vacuuming!
I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for.
Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.
Hit a home run - put your head down, drop the bat, run around the bases, because the name on the front is more - a lot more important than the name on the back.
The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.
We're all players and musicians and we sure all get along good. We just clicked right off the bat. We started playing and then we almost immediately started recording.
We devote our entire lives to becoming good ball players. We take batting practice until our hands bleed.
Probably spending 12 years at boarding school - comedy became a survival gene. But I think some people are funny right off the bat, as soon as they can speak or be naughty.
Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf; to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP.
Gentle With Them Thar Spurs'—a sequel to 'Riders of the Purple Sau-Sage.' Spurs was the feminist novel of its day…which was Tuesday." —Bats 2015
We won’t be able to sleep without the sound of her self-loathing orgasms crying out into the night." —Bats 2015
Wichtor’s been cranky ever since a fat vulture roosted on his granite Cârnat, uh, schmekel in 1864 and broke it off." — Bats 2015
I dunno. Zombies are kinda cool," Jonathan said. "They just don't give a dusty fart about anything." — Bats 2015
You can't blame someone for not knowing what his or her job should be if you don't ask for it right off the bat.
You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.
It's especially gratifying to have done a film like 'Eight Men Out' because it's hard not to have fun when there are so many bats and balls around.
The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.
They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball and they tell you to hit it square.
Perhaps not," said Will, who had ears like a bat's. "But I would make a radiant bride.
I understood that fate could not be eluded forever; it came on leathery wings, swooping through the darkness like the bats in the orchards.
