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ABUA - Great Britain - Governing body for UK baseball umpires. Umpire information, news, recruitment, training clinics and seminars, assignments and game schedules. Associate body of the Amateur Baseball Umpires' Association (ABUA) and affiliated to the British Baseball Federation (BBF) and its parent body BaseballSoftballUK.
Great Britain Baseball Teams - Official site for the senior, junior, cadet and juvenile teams. Information about their Baseball Academy, Booster Club and history. Online shopping.
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(Anonymous) Baseball This isn't right, this isn't even wrong. - Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being. -- Benjamin Disraeli A small family is soon provided for. -- English Proverb We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be Baseball Wit is educated insolence. - Aristotle The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. -- Robert M. Pirsig Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. -- Samuel Butler Baseball Value your words. Each one may be the last. -- Stanislaw J. Lec Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. If we don't change the direction we are going, We are likely to end up where we are heading. -- Chinese saying A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. -- Albert Einstein "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Baseball Character is what you are in the dark. -- Dwight L. Moody Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. -- Salvador Dali The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'. - unknown Baseball The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style. -- Fred Astaire Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. -- James Stephens They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist--- -- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian. -- H. L. Mencken For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!" -- John Greenleaf Whittier Baseball "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Baseball Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. -- George Santayana If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are... -- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction. - General Douglas MacArthur America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. -- Arnold Toynbee Baseball The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Luck is the residue of design. - Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get what they want. -- David Mamet Baseball "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. -- Tom Stoppard Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. -- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Honor the ocean of love. -- George de Benneville Baseball The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have. -- William Hazlitt I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have th Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. -- Lewis Grizzard Baseball A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune. -- Anonymous "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. -- Stephen Leacock "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) What does not kill me makes me stronger. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Baseball Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. -- Lily Tomlin The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. -- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. -- Oscar Wilde Baseball There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. -- Aldous Huxley One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. -- Oscar Wilde Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. -- Vince Lombardi Baseball Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind. -- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the disg The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. -- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Baseball "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her. -- Benjamin Tillett A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. -- James Lowell blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Baseball Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. -- Anonymous Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976. -- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. -- Thomas Szasz Baseball The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a State depend. -- Benjamin Disraeli We must become the change we want to see. -- Gandhi You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. -- Lord Byron "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Baseball This is the fourth? -- Thomas Jefferson, dying words The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. -- Paul Ehrlich Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest Hemingway Baseball Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand. -- Charles Pierce Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. -- George E. Woodberry The course of true love never did run smooth. -- William Shakespeare Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ign Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. -- Orison Swett Marden Baseball I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -- William Faulkner "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Baseball
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