The Big Field Quotes

“stayed”
― Mike Lupica, The Big Field

“wanted”
― Mike Lupica, The Big Field

“Hutch always remembered the famous flip play Jeter had made in the playoffs one time, against the Oakland A’s.”
― Mike Lupica, The Big Field

“It was 12:30 in the morning by now, and they didn’t want Hutch’s parents to hear that they were still awake.”
― Mike Lupica, The Big Field

“A”
― Mike Lupica, The Big Field

“thought. I don’t deserve it. And it wasn’t like he”
― Mike Lupica, The Big Field

“It was one of the first things Hutch could remember his dad teaching him. Before his dad stopped teaching him baseball things. Hutch was seven. His dad had brought a small plywood board out into the yard, told Hutch to pretend the wood was his glove, showed him how to put it straight down on the ground and then use his bare hand to pin the ball against it.”
― Mike Lupica, The Big Field

“remember his dad teaching him. Before his dad stopped teaching him baseball things. Hutch was seven. His dad had brought a small plywood board out into the yard, told Hutch to pretend the wood was his glove, showed him how to put it straight down on the ground and then use his bare hand to pin the ball against it.”
― Mike Lupica, The Big Field

“Hutch always remembered the famous flip play Jeter had made in the playoffs”
― Mike Lupica, The Big Field

“As usual, it was as if he just appeared, out of nowhere, or got beamed in the way guys did in one of the old Star Trek shows that Hutch liked to watch on the Sci Fi Channel. They’d just look up and there would be Darryl,”
― Mike Lupica, The Big Field

“It was as if a guy who didn’t seem to care about anybody on the team suddenly cared about this: Being captain of the team.”
― Mike Lupica, The Big Field

“Then they were all saying “Hutch…Hutch…Hutch” as if woofing out his nickname, and Cody was pulling Hutch”
― Mike Lupica, The Big Field

“to his feet, the Cardinals all around him, trying to join hands above his head, a bunch of guys who’d only come together after the school year ended feeling like a team that had been together, really together, for much longer.”
― Mike Lupica, The Big Field

“It was as if a guy who didn’t seem to care about anybody on the team suddenly cared about this:”
― Mike Lupica, The Big Field

“There was a tall outfield fence in Caloosa, out beyond the grass that seemed to be freshly cut here the way the infield always seemed to be freshly raked, but Hutch had only seen high school varsity players clear it.”
― Mike Lupica, The Big Field

“Not to mention the best shortstop in the house, the one downstairs watching the movie:”
― Mike Lupica, The Big Field

“But anybody who watched the game was going to remember the play Darryl had made in the ninth.”
― Mike Lupica, The Big Field

“Darryl Williams was already treated like he was the LeBron James of baseball,”
― Mike Lupica, The Big Field

“Cody was the Cardinals right fielder, and Hutch’s best friend in the world.”
― Mike Lupica, The Big Field

“He could feel his heart in his chest, feeling the thump-thump-thump of it the way you could feel the thump of rap music from the car next to you at a stoplight sometimes.”
― Mike Lupica, The Big Field

“Hutch and his teammates would be done for the summer. Done like dinner.”
― Mike Lupica, The Big Field

“There was, Hutch decided, even more he didn’t know about his dad than he’d ever imagined.”
― Mike Lupica, The Big Field

“And the last couple of games, people have treated me like I’m the star.”
― Mike Lupica, The Big Field