My yearly baseball Quote...

[moorecg]

I love this quote and send it to my friends the day Pitchers and Catchers report every year....I think it sums up how I feel about baseball perfectly.

 

People will come Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why they're doing it. They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past. Of course, we won't mind if you look around, you'll say. It's only $20 per person. They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it: for it is money they have and peace they lack. And they'll walk out to the bleachers; sit in shirtsleeves on a perfect afternoon. They'll find they have reserved seats somewhere along one of the baselines, where they sat when they were children and cheered their heroes. And they'll watch the game and it'll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick they'll have to brush them away from their faces. People will come Ray. The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh... people will come Ray. People will most definitely come.

[BeerHere]

I love that movie.

[cubfan87]

That is my favorite quote out of the whole movie. Actually, as I type this, I am wearing a shirt with that last part on it. My grandparents took me to the Field of Dreams site this past summer as part of my high school graduation present. We were there on a rainy day, but it was amazing. That movie is what baseball is all about.

[PackLandVA]

As a Cubs fan, my yealry baseball quote...unfortunately:

 

Wait 'til next year.

[NCCubFan]

That movie is what baseball is all about.

It's my favorite baseball movie, and one of my favorite movies of any kind. I have it on DVD, and have a spring ritual of watching it and some other baseball movies during the week before the start of the season.