Tom Barber

“Infielder Craig Counsell played parts of sixteen years in the major leagues despite looking like a librarian,”
― Tim Kurkjian, I'm Fascinated by Sacrifice Flies: Inside the Game We All Love

“We do not want to go to the right or left, but straight back to our own country!”
― Hampton Sides, Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West

“Plenty of people didn’t care for him much, but there is a huge difference between disliking somebody—maybe even disliking them a lot—and actually shooting them, strangling them, dragging them through the fields and setting their house on fire. It was a difference which kept the vast majority of the population alive from day to day.”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“No one loves the numbers more than I do, but numbers don’t measure everything, especially when it comes to evaluating defense. And in the end, I am going to trust Buck Showalter’s eyes more than a set of statistics devised by someone who never played the game.”
― Tim Kurkjian, I'm Fascinated by Sacrifice Flies: Inside the Game We All Love