Spring Training

• Yogi Berra once said: "Baseball is 90 percent physical and the other half is mental."
• That traveled pitcher Jim Bouton is quoted as saying, "baseball players are smarter than football players. How many times do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?"
• The scholar Jacques Barsun observed, "Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules, and realities of the game."
• It was in 319 B.C. that Socrates said "Athletics have become professionalized."