1. Backyard Baseball Sayings And Sayings
2. Backyard Baseball Sayings Ideas
3. Baseball Sayings Funny

Jan 25, 2017  Quotes I've collected from playing BB2001. Backyard Baseball is a series of baseball video games for children which was developed by Humongous Entertainment and published by Atari. It was first released in October 1997 for Macintosh and Microsoft Windows.

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• A Grand Slam
• Angels In The Outfield
• Backyard Baseball
• Baseball Diamonds Are A Boys Best Friend
• Baseball, It’s America’s Pastime
• Batter At The Ballpark
• Batter Up
• Better at the Ballpark
• Casey At The Bat
• Catch Some Fun
• Double Play
• Field of Dreams
• Fly Ball
• Foul Ball
• Game Day
• Going, Going, Gone
• Have A Ball
• Hey-Batter-Batter
• Hit And Run
• Homerun!
• In A League All Your Own
  Life Lessons Learned In Little League
• Lil’ Slugger
• Little Big League
• Little Slugger
• Major League Fun
• Minor League Fun
• MVP
• My Favorite Season? Baseball Season, Of Course
• Nobody Loves The Ump
• Pitchin’ In
• Play Ball
• Rookie Of The Year
• Root, Root, Root For The Home Team
• Seventh Inning Stretch
• Slugger
• Stealing Second
• Step Up To The Plate
• Steeeerike!
• Strrrrike!
• Strike It Up
• Take Me Out To The Ballgame
• The Boys Are Back In Town
• The Last Hit
• The Rookie
• Three Strikes, You’re Out
• Triple Play
• World Series Here We Come
• You’re Out!

Backyard Baseball Sayings And Sayings

Best Quotes for Baseball

• “I don’t want them to forget Ruth, I just want them to remember me.” ~ Hank Aaron
• “I hate all hitters. I start a game mad and I stay that way until it’s over.” ~ Don Drysdale
• “I swing big, with everything I’ve got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.” ~ Babe Ruth
• “I would be lost without baseball. I don’t think that I could stand being away from it as long as I was alive.” ~ Roberto Clemente, Outfielder
• “If God wanted football played in the spring, he would not have invented baseball.” ~ Sam Rutigliano
• “In the great department store of life, baseball is the toy department.” ~ Unknown
• “The American boy starts swinging the bat about as soon as he can lift one.” ~ Tris Speaker
• “The game’s isn’t over until it’s over.” ~ Yogi Berra
• “The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.” ~ Bill Veeck
• “The two most important things in life are good friends and a good bullpen.” ~ Bob Lemon, ML Manager
• “You can’t hit what you can’t see.” ~ Walter Johnson
• And listen to those cheers from the crowd!!
• And that’s the Ball Game
• [My] Angel in the Outfield (your child in the outfield)
• Baseball-It’s Not Just A Game
• Baseball credits Abner Doubleday(retired Civil War General) with inventing the game, supposedly in Elihu Phinney’s cow pasture in Cooperstown, New York, in 1839.
• Batter UP!
• Conference at the Mound
• Double Play
• Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. – Babe Ruth
• Field of Dreams
• Grand Slam
• Half this game is ninety percent mental. – Yogi Berra
• Hay, Batter Batter Batter
• … Honors are all things you should worry about when you retire. I always go back to one pitch at a time. – Josh Beckett (baseball player Boston Red Sox)
• If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around .600. – Babe Ruth
• It’s the only place in the world that it’s OK to steal.
• It’s not over til it’s over. – Yogi Berra
• Life Lessons Learned in Little League
• My motto was to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was to keep swinging. – Hank Aaron
• Never argue with a 400 hitter.
• Nobody Loves the Ump[ire]
• The Ol’ Ball Game, just new players
• On the Bench / picking up slivers
• A pick-up game
• Pitching In (pitcher or discussion at the mound)
• Play Ball!! (make exclamations out of bats and baseballs)
• Take Me Out To the Ball Game. Take me out to the crowd. Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jacks.I don’t care if I ever get back. We’ll root root root for the [Home Team]. If they don’t win, it’s a shame.For it’s ONE, TWO, THREE strikes your out At the ol’ ball game.
• There is nothing more American than baseball. (hot dogs, apple pie and Chevrolet)
• We want a pitcher not a belly itchier.
• Who’s on first, What’s on second, I don’t know – third base.
• – Abbott and Costello, well-known radio sketch

• You are all stars!!
• YOU’RRRRRE OUT!!! / YOU’RRRRRE SAFE!!!

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• Every game is game seven
• It’s about playing catch & throwing strikes
• Teamwork Makes The Dream Work
• Respect All, Fear None
• If its gotta be, it starts with me
• Refuse to Lose
• All it takes is all you’ve got
• It’s what you do before the season start that makes a champion.
• ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING
• Check out the baseball show “Pitch” – Good Stuff!
• Be prepared! “If only” are the famous last words of those who weren’t.
• Great opportunities come to those who make the most of small ones.
• To demand more of yourself than you do of others is the first step on any ladder of success.
• Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
• Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard
• Winning is a habit, Success is a choice
• OUT HUSTLE, OUT WORK, OUT THINK, OUT PLAY, OUT LAST

Funny Baseball Sayings for Instagram

• Shut up and pitch
• Babe Ruth is dead — Throw Strikes!
• Intensity is not a perfume!

• 7 days without baseball makes one weak
• Actions speak louder than coaches
• Reaching high keeps a man on his toes.
• Bad habits are like a good bed – easy to get into but difficult to get out of.
• Championships are won at practice
• Play like a Champion Today
• Never let good enough BE enough!
• The will to win is not nearly so important as the will to prepare to win.
• Whatever it takes
• Practice winning every day
• Practice, practice, practice
• Defense wins
• Offense sells tickets, Defense wins championships
• The fans can make you famous.
• A contract can make you rich.
• The press can make you a superstar.
• But only the love can make you a player.
• I will always place the Team first;
• I will never accept defeat;
• I will never quit;
• I will never leave a fallen teammate
• There is no limit to what can be accomplished when nobody cares who gets the credit.
• Good. Better. Best.
• Never let it rest, until your good is better and your better is best.
• Some want it to happen,
• Some wish it would happen,
• Others make it happen.”
• dedication + motivation = success
• Deeds not Words
• Hard luck is composed of laziness, bad judgment, and poor execution.
• Victory comes to those who make the least mistakes.
• “I can’t do it” never yet accomplished anything – “I will try” has performed miracles.
• It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
• Demand respect or expect defeat
• Sweat plus Sacrifice equals Success
• Unity in Adversity
• Bringing out the best in each other!
• out run
• out hit

• out play
• out hustle
• out WIN
• On front: We’re Going To Win
• On back: So Coach Doesn’t Lose His Job
• Win The Last Game
• The price of greatness is responsibility.
• When you play ball, leave it all
• Unfinished Business
• Fast and Furious.
• The true champion believes in the impossible.
• All things are difficult before they are easy.
• Winners in life don’t always win; they just don’t give up.
• Make good habits and they will make you.
• No one is a failure until they stop trying.
• It is very hard to win when your thoughts turn to losing.
• Opportunity may knock, but you must open the door.
• Defeat isn’t bitter if you don’t swallow it.
• The true champion loses many battles before winning the war.
• The greatest game you can win is won within.
• To be satisfied with yourself is a sure sign that your forward motion has stopped.
• It isn’t the hours you put in, but what you put in the hours.
• The harder you work, the harder it is to lose.
• Ya Gotta Believe
• We Are Family
• Ain’t no stopping us now
• Practice doesn’t make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect
• You can’t be as good as, you have to be better than
• Look up, get up, but never give up
• United we play, United we win!
• The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra

Baseball Quotes for Instagram captions

• That rain delay was the most important thing to happen to the Chicago Cubs in the past 100 years. I don’t think there’s any way we win the game without it.
  Anthony Rizzo
• Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.
  Author Unknown
• Baseball is the only place in life where a sacrifice is really appreciated.
  Author Unknown
• Baseball is an island of activity amidst a sea of statistics
  Author Unknown
• Trying to sneak a pitch past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak a sunrise past a rooster.
  Joe Addock
• It’s crazy how things happen for a reason — I love when players have meetings; I hate when I do. So they had their meeting, and the big part of it was, We don’t quit. We don’t quit.
  Joe Maddon
• My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.
  Hank Aaron
• Why does everybody stand up and sing “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” when they’re already there?
  Larry Anderson
• Any baseball is beautiful. No other small package comes as close to the ideal design and utility. It is a perfect object for a man’s hand. Pick it up and it instantly suggests its purpose; it is meant to be thrown a considerable distance — thrown hard and with precision.
  Roger Angell
• I said before the Series that a sweep wouldn’t do it…It would have to be something epic. And that was epic, wasn’t it?
  Tom Ricketts, Cubs Owner
• Let’s play two.
  Ernie Banks
• Baseball is dull only to dull minds.
  Red Barber
• Back, back, back, back… Gone!
  Chris Berman

• The game isn’t over till it’s over.
  Yogi Berra
• It ain’t like football. You can’t make up no trick plays.
  Yogi Berra
• A hot dog at the ballgame beats roast beef at the Ritz.
  Humphrey Bogart
• More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.
  Thomas Boswell
• That’s something that made this organization what it is now. From my position I can see it: the sacrifice the scouts make when they drive the extra miles to get that last look at a player, the minor league coaches putting in extra hours, the big league coaches crushing video, the players working on their weaknesses, picking their teammates up. That’s what makes a great organization. That’s Cub.
  Theo Epstein
• You see, 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.
  Jim Bouton
• 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
• Show me a guy whos afraid to look bad, and I’ll show you a guy you can beat every time.
  Lou Brock
• You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.
  Roy Campanella
• It could be, it might be… It is, A home run!
  Harry Caray
• I’ve only been doing this fifty-four years. With a little experience, I might get better.
  Harry Caray
• Hello again, everybody… It’s a bee-yoo-tiful day for baseball.
  Harry Caray

• My whole philosophy is to broadcast the way a fan would broadcast.
  Harry Caray
• Pro-rated at 500 at-bats a year that means that for two years out of the fourteen I played, I never even touched the ball.
  Norm Cash on his 1,081 strikeouts
• All game long I was burning nervous energy. I was a wreck. I thought about all the people in Chicago and how much this meant to them. But after we had that meeting, I knew we were going to win. It was only a matter of how and when.
  Anthony Rizzo
• When you’ve learned to believe in yourself, there’s no telling how good a player you can be. That’s because you have the mental edge.
  Rod Carew
• Say this much for big league baseball – it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.
  Bruce Catton
• I’m convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile.
  Tom Clark
• I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.
  Ty Cobb
• When I played ball, I didn’t play for fun. . . . It’s no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It’s a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.
  Ty Cobb
• They usually show movies on a flight like that.
  Ken Coleman
• Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
  Pat Conroy
• The burden has been lifted. It should have never been there in the first place, I don’t think, but now we can move forward.
  Joe Maddon, Cubs Manager

• A baseball fan has the digestive apparatus of a billy goat. He can, and does, devour any set of diamond statistics with insatiable appetite and then nuzzles hungrily for more.
  Arthur Daley
• 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.
  Alvin Dark
• The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he’s timid.
  Don Drysdale
• You don’t save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.
  Leo Durocher
• What are we at the park for except to win? I’d trip my mother. I’d help her up, brusher her off, tell her I’m sorry. But mother don’t make it to third.
  Leo Durocher
• Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.
  Charlie Finley
• A critic once characterized baseball as six minutes of action crammed into two-and-one-half hours.
  Ray Fitzgerald
• Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
  Robert Frost
• There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem – once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit.
  Al Gallagher
• No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.
  Paul Gallico
• It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.
  A. Bartlett Giamatti
• When I knocked a guy down, there was no second part to the story.
  Bob Gibson
• The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.
  Bryant Gumbel
• Don’t tell me about the world. Not today. It’s springtime and they’re knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball.
  Pete Hamill
• Baseball is the only sport I know that when you’re on offense, the other team controls the ball.
  Ken Harrelson
• Baseball? It’s just a game – as simple as a ball and a bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. It’s a sport, business – and sometimes even religion.
  Ernie Harwell
• Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words.
  Ernie Harwell

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Backyard Baseball is a series of baseballvideo games for children which was developed by Humongous Entertainment and published by Atari. It was first released in October 1997 for Macintosh and Microsoft Windows. Later games were featured on Game Boy Advance, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Wii, and iOS. It is part of the Backyard Sports series. There have been eleven different versions of the game since 1997. Some of the game titles that were created include Backyard Baseball, Backyard Baseball 2001-2010, and Backyard Sports: Sandlot Sluggers.

The original game consisted of 30 neighborhood kids from which the gamer could choose to play.^[1] Over the years, the idea of 'Pro players as kids' became popular, and the original statistics and looks of the players changed. Some of the professional players that were available included Chipper Jones, Frank Thomas, Alex Rodriguez, Alfonso Soriano, Ichiro Suzuki, Sammy Sosa, Jim Thome, Albert Pujols, Nomar Garciaparra, Ken Griffey Jr., and Barry Bonds. As the game progresses, there are some professionals that become available or 'unlockable' including Randy Johnson, Derek Jeter, and Mike Piazza.

In Backyard Baseball, players take a managerial role by creating a team of different players to compete against opponents. In the different installments, a player could play an exhibition game or a 14, 16 or 32 game season (different versions vary) followed by the 'Backyard Baseball League' playoffs, which contains the American League and National League divisional series, the AL and NL championship series and finally the 'Backyard Baseball World Series'. Series games will vary per game.

This game has various playable modes, they include: Single Game, Batting Practice, Spectator, and Season Game.

In 2013, The Evergreen Group acquired the intellectual property from Atari.

Legacy[edit]

Pablo Sanchez, one of the playable characters in the game, has been regarded as one of the strongest characters in video game history.^[2][3][4]

The game has also been noted for its diversity (gender, race) of characters, both in ratio of white to non-white and male to female, as well as skill level and the distribution of the best characters.^[5]

Power-Ups[edit]

Sometimes accompanying the four standard batting modes (Power, Line Drive, Grounder and Bunt), some beneficial power-ups appear. In the original Backyard Baseball, these batting power-ups appeared when the player got a hit when the computer used a 'crazy pitch' (see below). Starting from Backyard Baseball 2001, the power ups were awarded after a hit off a 'crazy pitch' and when the player turned a double play or triple play on defense. In addition to these batting power-ups, pitching power-ups, or 'crazy pitches,' also progressively appear, though they are much more frequent and in number, occurring whenever the player strikes an opponent out. These pitches consume much more energy and causes the strike zone to expand, so most of the pitches given are never used consecutively. In addition to the 'crazy pitches,' a strikeout may also award the player 'More Juice,' a full energy recharge for the pitcher that can be used when the player sees fit to use it.

Backyard Baseball 2001

Batting Power-Ups

• Aluminum Power: This power-up is the most valued and can disappear after one or no tries when in use. Players use an aluminum bat to increase the chances to hit a home run.
• Screaming Line Drive: The power-up last about two uses and appears more frequently. Players hit a fast line drive to the wall and allows the batter to run more or all bases.
• Under Grounder: This move lasts at least two uses. Players hit a ground ball that goes into the ground, causing the ball to reappear in any random area of the outfield.
• Crazy Bunt: The move disappears after one or no tries when in use, but if the power-up is used sparingly, the move can last up to four uses. When the ball is hit, the ball rolls around the field erratically as fielders just barely miss catching it.

Pitching Power-Ups

Backyard Baseball Sayings Ideas

• Big Freeze: The ball is thrown like normal but suddenly stops just before it enters the strike zone, often faking the hitter into swinging at the pitch.
• Elevator: The ball is thrown low along the ground and then the ball suddenly jumps into the air at the last moment.
• Crazyball: the ball 'laughs' when thrown, and it moves in random directions in the air. Easier to hit if swingspot is enabled
• Corkskrew: The ball makes a spiral motion through the air. Easier to hit if swingspot is enabled
• Zigzag: The ball makes a zig-zag motion through the air. Easier to hit if swingspot is enabled
• Slomo: The ball travels very slowly through the air, requiring precise timing to be hit.
• Spitball: The ball is covered with saliva and jerks in the air.
• Fireball: One of the most powerful pitches, the ball blazes past the batter in a ball of fire at an incredibly high speed. When used by a player, this pitch is the most draining of the pitcher's stamina.

Backyard Baseball 2005

Batting Power-Ups

• Sonic Boom: The player knocks down opposing fielders with a super-powerful shockwave.
• Rubber Bat: The batter bounce a grounder really high into the air — the player will have a chance to reach base before any fielder catches the ball.
• Butter Fingers: The player will splatter the opposing fielders with butter. They'll have a slippery time trying to field your hit.
• Jumping Bean Bunt: This tricky power-up makes the ball jump all over the place!
• Lightning Bat: Produce tremendous power when you connect with the ball.
• Geyser Hit: The batter makes the ball burrow deep underground before it suddenly surfaces somewhere in the outfield.
• Piñata Bat: The batter drives fielders crazy when the ball is hit, the ball multiplies into dozens of bouncing baseballs.
• Orbiter: Knock the stuffing out of the ball.

Pitching Power-Ups

• The Fang: The Fang looks like a normal curve-ball, but it bites hard at the last second and goes straight into the dirt.
• Freezer: The Freezer stops just before reaching the strike zone, pauses briefly, and then continues.
• Slo MO: This ball starts moving at ultra-slow speed just before reaching the strike zone.
• Juice Box: The Juice Box will refill your pitcher's Pitch Juice Box.
• Rainbow Pop-up: When it's hit, the ball goes straight into the air for an easy out.
• Crazy Pitch: The Crazy Pitch is so wild that even the pitcher doesn't know where it will go.
• Splitball: This pitch splits into two separate curve-balls, one of which is a fake, unhittable baseball.
• Fireball: The Fireball is so fast it can burn a hole in your catcher's glove.

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Baseball Sayings Funny

References[edit]

1. ^https://www.theringer.com/features/2017/10/10/16451300/backyard-baseball-20-year-anniversary
2. ^http://www.wbur.org/onlyagame/2017/06/23/backyard-baseball-computer-game-history
3. ^http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2013/03/the-25-best-virtual-athletes-in-video-games/pablo-sanchez
4. ^http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1990299-most-terrifying-video-game-athletes-to-play-against
5. ^Delayo, Mike. 'The Inclusive Legacy of Backyard Baseball'. Fangraphs.

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