Lardner on Baseball Quotes

“Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be either a pitch or a person, stealing is legal, and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or the ball.”
― Ring Lardner, Lardner on Baseball

“Some of ours is so crooked they can't lay in a birth only when the trains making a curve.”
― Ring Lardner, Lardner on Baseball