“A ballplayer should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.”

— Babe Ruth

As quoted in Encyclopedia of Baseball (1951) by Hy Turkin and S. C. Thompson; reproduced in "Good Field, Good Hit Sums Up New Baseball Data Book" http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1951/05/27/page/44/article/good-field-good-hit-sums-up-new-baseball-data-book by Robert Cromie, in The Chicago Tribune (May 27, 1951), p. A4

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