I have a love of baseball and a love of music.
Baseball is a man maker.
I am the best in baseball.
We're the best team in baseball, but not by much.
Baseball was the darling of all sports back then.
I'm not a fan of baseball really.
He speaks in that strange sports talk, telling me about the start of the new season and asks if I follow baseball. No. I really don’t. He assures me if I stay in town long enough I will become a baseball fan. It’s a requirement of living in St. L...
There's a reason diehard fans get to the ballpark hours before game time. It’s not for better parking. It’s not for extra time to find our seats. It’s not so we’ll have time to down an extra hot dog, heavy on the mustard, prior to the first p...
If you can't fuck me while I read, fuck off.
The best thing about baseball is there's no homework.
I don't know anything about baseball.
Luck is the great stabilizer in baseball.
Baseball is not a sport you can achieve individually.
Baseball isn't just a game. It's the smell of popcorn drifting in the air, the sight of bugs buzzing near the stadium lights,the roughness of the dirt beneath your cleats. It's the anticipation building in your chest as the anthem plays, the adrenali...
But baseball was different. Schwartz thought of it as Homeric - not a scrum but a series of isolated contests. Batter versus pitcher, fielder versus ball. You couldn't storm around, snorting and slapping people, the way Schwartz did while playing foo...
Discouraged? As I was driving home from work one day, I stopped to watch a local Little League baseball game that was being played in a park near my home. As I sat down behind the bench on the first-baseline, I asked one of the boys what the score wa...
Ray Kinsella: I think I know what "If you build it, he will come" means. Annie Kinsella: Ooh... why do I not think this is such a good thing? Ray Kinsella: I think it means that if I build a baseball field out there that Shoeless Joe Jackson will get...
The good rising fastball is the best pitch in baseball.
Baseball is dull only to dull minds.
The baseball held was my fantasy of what life offered.
Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.
