I had an addiction to play baseball.
Without Cooperstown, you don't have baseball: Baseball is history.
Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.
There is no cost difference between incarceration and an Ivy League education; the main difference is curriculum.
All I ever wanted to be was president of the American League.
Betemit's positional flexibility is the same as yours: He can stand around and muse about the great philosophical debates of our day anywhere on the field. Catching and throwing the baseball is an entirely different question.
Javier Rodriguez: You like baseball? We need lights for the parks, so kids can play at night. So they can play baseball. So they don't become burros para los malones. Everybody likes baseball. Everybody likes parks.
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
It was all I lived for, to play baseball.
I understand business and understand the ugly face of baseball, which is the business part of baseball.
I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid.
I love the fans, I love the game of baseball, and I love Cincinnati baseball.
My husband and Charlie Sheen played Little League together. They've always been best friends.
I think the Canadian Football League is a great league, but it's not the NFL, and I'm not Jerry Rice.
I was such a screwup when I got to the big leagues. I was a total idiot.
In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.
All American males are failed athletes, and it was big time even if it was Little League. It meant a lot to you.
I didn't go to Ivy League schools. I dropped out of college to go into movies.
What causes all this?" "Pride. What else?
I owe baseball. Baseball don't owe me a damn thing.
I was born to play baseball.
