Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.
I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing.
I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.
Now, you tell me, if I have a day off during the baseball season, where do you think I'll spend it? The ballpark. I still love it. Always have, always will.
It's tempting, because as one senator said to me, 'We know if we invite baseball down, we'll draw a crowd'.
And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates.
Baseball can be slow in many ways. The action starts with when the pitcher delivers the ball. But the action really starts when the crack of the bat happens.
Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.
Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.
There's a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus Wagner hit a triple in Pittsburgh 46 years ago. That's baseball.
The public wouldn't like the perfect umpire in every game. It would kill off baseball's greatest alibi - 'We was robbed.'
Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.
I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.
Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.
The game is just, everybody talks about baseball, but I really think football probably has a little bit more American feeling than anything.
In regards to steroids, I think we're all to blame, all of baseball. I never realized how far-reaching this problem has been.
Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young.
When I came into baseball, I had one goal for my career - the Hall of Fame.
The modern era of Cape Cod baseball dawned in 1963 when the league became a showcase for the collegiate elite.
For my children, they spent 15 to 20 years of their life in baseball. And Ruth and I spent so many years of our married life that that was our life. We knew nothing else.
The Capone era. That was my time. Capone was a big baseball fan. He'd walk into the ballpark like the president walking in today, with bodyguards all around him.
