Links to FORMER BASEBALL PLAYERS

FORMER BASEBALL GREATS

Walter Johnson Doesn't Make Sense...

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 He Should’ve Been the Next Reggie Jackson. So Why Does Nobody Remember Him? (ft. No More Fielders) Joe Charboneau

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Roberto Clemente Highlights

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Randy Johnson - Last Batter of Perfect Game - 05/18/2004

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There Will Never Be Another Yogi Berra

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Jackie Robinson asked which baseball team was the most racist against him

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Why Brooks Robinson was Called the Human Vacuum Cleaner

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Tribute to Former Phillies Right Fielder Jay Johnstone

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Players who had a 1% CHANCE of MAKING the MLB

The War Hero Pitcher - Lou Brissie

Lou Gehrig, Legend! #shorts

Remembering MLB Legend Pete Rose Died at 83! #peterose #mlb #baseball #youtubeshorts #news #sad

Randy Johnson’s career changed on one pitch… #baseball #shorts

 1935 BABE RUTH ORIGINAL CLIP

Mel Ott Swing Description

John "Buck" O'Neil: Ty Cobb and Prejudice

History in Five: The Real Ty Cobb

The Sandberg Game | The Signature Game of Hall-of-Famer Ryne Sandberg's Career

Reggie Jackson's Favorite Yogi Berra Memory

Duke Snider Interview Part 1/5 - Baseball Hall of Fame

Pete Gray: The MLB Player With Just One Arm

Three Generations of Baseball Players

HAMMERIN' HANK

Jim Kaat remembers Hank Aaron

Hank Aaron reflects on his friendship with fellow Hall of Famer Stan Musial

THE RYAN EXPRESS

When baseball was dominated by an OLD MAN ⚾️🔥👴🏼

Why did Nolan Ryan NEVER win a Cy Young Award?

Nolan Ryan 1979 All Star game

GIBBY

Joe Torre on catching Bob Gibson in the All Star Game

Bob Gibson on his chemistry with Tim McCarver

KOUFAX

For a Six-Year Span, Sandy Koufax Ruled Baseball

Sandy Koufax

BO KNOWS

Bo Jackson inside the park homerun

Bo Jackson first Major League hit

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• Advice for be and would-be novelists

• Links to TG's stories online

• Favorite quotes

• What I do when I'm editing

ANECDOTES BY TOM GILLISPIE

• Wipeout at Death Valley

• Days with rainbows

• A desperate writer working in the dark

• Yer OUTTA there!

EDITOR@WORK BLOG ENTRIES

• You really DO need an editor

• Reminders for would-be novelists

• What I do when I'm editing

• What I charge (it's a deal) and what I edit

• Slogging through the Internet

• J-school: More eyes on your stories

• J-school: Go out and learn

• Rookie mistakes for magazine writers

ENTRIES FROM THE DOG BLOG

• Katie cried

• Growl and pull

• 13-plus years with my dog Lady

• ... said the spider to ...

• The Dog Diary (2014)

• YIP! YIP! The stereo-sound huskies

• What Lady and Michael Jackson had in common

BLOG ENTRIES FROM THE AUTO RACING JOURNAL

• Angel in Black: Remembering Dale Earnhardt Sr.

(a book of great stories about the Intimidator)

• Then Junior Said to Jeff...

(the book of great NASCAR stories)

• My best day as a sports writer

• Jeff Gordon's milk toast to Dale Earnhardt

• Wayne Auton: A life in racing

Out in leftfield

As they say, ya just gotta love Yogi Berra. Particularly if you're a baseball fan or an editor, or, in my case, both. Yogi could mangle a sentence with the best of 'em.

Yogi on education: "I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did."

On economics: "A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore." Actually, a dime probably ain't worth a nickel nowadays.

On mathematics: "Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical." Somehow, Yogi wound up with about 140 percent here.

More on education: "Bill Dickey is learning me his experience." And what did Dickey, the teacher, learn?

My favorite: "He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious." Apparently he was a switch-swimmer.

A thoughtful quote: "I always thought that record would stand until it was broken." Most do. If they go early, watch out.

Yogi, the philosopher: "In baseball, you don't know nothing."

Or: "When you come to a fork in the road, take it." I think I'm already lost.

The profound: "If people don't want to come out to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?" I'm speechless.

Great elocution apparently ran in the family. Even Yogi's son, Dale, could flub a ground-up quote with the best of them. "You can't compare me to my father. Our similarities are different," said Dale, a former Pittsburgh Pirate and apparently a chop off the old log.

Let's go with the final quote from Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra, a modest man despite being a beloved Hall of Famer. "It ain't the heat, it's the humility," Yogi has been quoted as saying.

Must have been the Hot Stove League.

The Wisdom of Yogi Berra - Famous Quotes

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The Best of Yogi Berra's Quotes - 10 Classic 'Yogisms'

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EMAIL: tgilli52@gmail.com  BLUESKY: PROFILE

MORE BLOG ENTRIES BY TOM GILLISPIE

• Resume for a writer and editor

• An editor's views on powerful writing

• Advice for be and would-be novelists

• Links to TG's stories online

• Favorite quotes

• What I do when I'm editing

ANECDOTES BY TOM GILLISPIE

• Wipeout at Death Valley

• Days with rainbows

• A desperate writer working in the dark

• Yer OUTTA there!

EDITOR@WORK BLOG ENTRIES

• You really DO need an editor

• Reminders for would-be novelists

• What I do when I'm editing

• What I charge (it's a deal) and what I edit

• Slogging through the Internet

• J-school: More eyes on your stories

• J-school: Go out and learn

• Rookie mistakes for magazine writers

ENTRIES FROM THE DOG BLOG

• Katie cried

• Growl and pull

• 13-plus years with my dog Lady

• ... said the spider to ...

• The Dog Diary (2014)

• YIP! YIP! The stereo-sound huskies

• What Lady and Michael Jackson had in common

BLOG ENTRIES FROM THE AUTO RACING JOURNAL

• Angel in Black: Remembering Dale Earnhardt Sr.

(a book of great stories about the Intimidator)

• Then Junior Said to Jeff...

(the book of great NASCAR stories)

• My best day as a sports writer

• Jeff Gordon's milk toast to Dale Earnhardt

• Wayne Auton: A life in racing