You can't hit what you can't see; I float like a butterfly and sting like a bee!
Nobody saw it, he (Rogers Hornsby) hit it and it disappeared.
The cost of anything is the foregone alternative.
Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smoky Joe Wood.
(Bob) Feller isn't quite as fast as I was.
The beanball is one of the meanest things on Earth and no decent fellow would use it. The beanball is a potential murderer. If I were a batter and thought the pitcher really tried to bean me, I'd be inclined to wait for him outside the park with a baseball bat.