These are my top ten baseball quotes said about Chicago baseball or said by Chicago baseball players and broadcaster.
10. Ken “Hawk” Harrelson
Baseball is the only sport I know that when you are on offense the other team controls the ball.
This would be the first and last sane statement of Hawk’s career.
9. Alvin Dark
Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball, as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.
Couldn’t have said it better than myself.
8. Harry Caray
Aw, how could he (Jorge Orta) lose the ball in the sun, he's from Mexico.
Would you like a little racism with your hot dog?
7. Albert Belle on going to the White Sox
Going to a new team is like going to a new high school. Nobody knows you. It's a chance to rebuild your image.
How’d that work out for you, Albert?
6. Harry Caray
What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No Cubs.
Damn you Harry!
5. Albert Belle
RBIs win games; and they can make you a ton of money.
God, I love Albert Belle.
4. Jack Brickhouse
Any team can have a bad century.
Yeah, yeah, yeah…
3. Ernie Banks
I like my players to be married and in debt. That's the way you motivate them.
Do you think that would work for bloggers…well, without the wife thing, of course.
2. Leo Durocher
Some guys are admired for coming to play, as the saying goes. I prefer those who come to kill.
Half of me wishes Durocher raised me to be the biggest badass ever, but the other half of me really liked the new Death Cab album.
1. Jack Brickhouse
I imagine myself as the broadcaster for a Cubs-White Sox World Series, a Series that would last seven games, with the final game going extra innings before being suspended because of darkness at Wrigley Field.
We can only pray...
Honorable Mentions
“Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is
listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?” - Vin Scully
"It's a great day for a ball game; let's play two!" - Ernie Banks
"God knows I gave my best in baseball at all times and no man on earth can truthfully judge me otherwise." - Shoeless Joe Jackson
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