“[Hurdle] told me the tryout was over, and as long as he is the skipper, I'll be hitting cleanup, just keep doing what I was doing,”
Matt Holliday
“It was the schooner Hesperus, / That sailed the wintry sea; / And the skipper had taken his little daughter, / To bear him company.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going back.”
John Barth
“The skipper is reported to be greatly distressed. He called the coast guard immediately after it happened. A lot of people here are pretty shocked and saddened.”
Lara Sloan
“I knew when the skipper looked at me and said, 'Put your things on,' he wasn't kidding. So I went out to the bullpen.”
Roger Clemens
“After three days, it got nice and calm -- until the skipper announced we had been in a hurricane, were in the eye at present and would have another two days coming out the other side.”
John Witt
“The skipper, Cmdr. Waddle, then said, 'I need to take a look.' And he took the periscope,”
John Hall
