Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.
What I miss when I'm away is the pride in baseball. Especially the pride of being on a team that wins.
It really came down to deciding between baseball and soccer. Soccer won out because I enjoyed it more.
I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.
The only real game - I think - in the world is baseball.
Going back down to the minors is the toughest thing to handle in baseball.
I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.
One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.
My little brothers loved baseball. I'm not as big on that as basketball or football, but I understand the game.
The first thing to know about playing baseball in Michigan is, Michigan's really cold.
Open your heart to a baseball team and you're liable to get it broken.
I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.
I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out.
Billy Beane: How can you not get romantic about baseball?
Baseball Bat Man: Bring back the ball.
I played baseball because I could make more money doing that than I could doing anything else.
I could have played another year, but I would have been playing for the money, and baseball deserves better than that.
Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
When I was a kid, I was always an athlete. I played a lot of sports. I played football, basketball, baseball and soccer.
I always played sports when I was young. I played football and baseball for eight years. I loved football.
