Phil Bender:
CLASS OF 2000
Anderson High SchoolClass of 2000
Cincinnati, OH
Phil's Story
Phil is from Cincinnati, Ohio. Phil's schools include Anderson High School. Phil later attended University of Cincinnati.
Music Phil likes includes Jamey Johnson, Fast Forward, Dropkick Murphys. TV shows Phil likes include History, Nitro Circus, Family Guy.
One of Phil's favorite quotes is:"In baseball democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rulebook. Color merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another.Baseball is a rookie. His experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream. It's a veteran too, a tired old man of thirty-five hoping that those aching muscles can pull him through another sweltering August and September. Nicknames are baseball, names like Zeke and Pie and Kiki and Home Run and Cracker and Dizzy and Dazzy. Baseball is the cool, clear eyes of Rogers Hornsby. The flas...Expand for more
hing spikes of Ty Cobb, an over aged pixie named Rabbit Maranville.Baseball just a game as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion. Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World's Series catch. And then dashing off to play stick ball in the street with his teenage pals. That's baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying., "I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.â Baseball is cigar smoke, hot roasted peanuts, The Sporting News, ladies day, "Down in Front", Take Me Out to the Ball Game, and the Star Spangled Banner. Baseball is a tongue tied kid from Georgia growing up to be an announcer and praising the Lord for showing him the way to Cooperstown. This is a game for America. Still a game for America, this is baseball! -Ernie Harwell. . .R.I.P.".
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