Base Ball

Famous quotes containing the words base and/or ball:

“All that are printed and bound are not books; they do not necessarily belong to letters, but are oftener to be ranked with the other luxuries and appendages of civilized life. Base wares are palmed off under a thousand disguises.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“When Adam delved and Eve span,
Who was then the gentleman?”
—John Ball (hanged 1381)