Philadelphia Baseball Wall

Famous quotes containing the words philadelphia, baseball and/or wall:

    “I’d like to see Paris before I die. Philadelphia will do.”
    —Mae West, U.S. screenwriter, W.C. Fields, and Edward Cline. Cuthbert Twillie (W.C. Fields)

    “Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.”
    —Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)

    “This is Wall Street, and today is important. Because tomorrow, July 4th, I intended to make my first million dollars—an exciting day in a man’s life. The enterprise was slightly illegal.”
    —Abraham Polonsky (b. 1910)