The appeal of baseball is intimately wrapped up with one’s youth. Baseball is very much about being young again in a harmless way. And one of its core appeals is to remind America of a time when it was young. You fly over a major city at night in the summer and suddenly you’ll see […]
Baseball Quotes
Driving a car is like playing baseball. The object in both is to get home safely.
It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoon and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on […]
I’m a natural left-hander, but I bat and throw right-handed because that’s the way I learned. But, I eat left and drink left and write left. I’m amphibious.
In a way an umpire is like a woman. He makes quick decisions, never reverses them, and doesn’t think you’re safe when you’re out.
Playing baseball is not real life. It’s a fantasy world – It’s a dream come true.
On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.
Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches.
Baseball serves as a good role model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.
Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game.
