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"Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is." -Bob Feller (Hall of Famer, played 1936-1956)
Coach Thornton has worked in the Oakland A's, Baltimore Orioles, San Francisco Giants, and Tampa Bay Rays organizations and has coached travel baseball for over 15 seasons in California, Ohio, Maryland and Indiana. Aside from playing baseball himself for many years, he worked alongside Cal Ripken, Jr. to help develop and manage Cal's youth basebaball camps, clinics and tournaments and he co-authored the book "The C.O.M.P.L.E.T.E. Player" with sports...
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“If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.”
— Bill Veeck
“Bob Gibson is the luckiest pitcher I ever saw. He always pitches when the other team doesn't score any runs.”
— Tim McCarver
"After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases."
- Mickey Mantle