batter quotes

There is no reason why the infield should not try to put the batter off his stride at the critical moment, by neatly- timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.

-Shaw, George Bernard
Alluding to baseball. Quoted in ColinJarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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