The main character, Gene Moore, is shown how much of his identity is wrapped up in his career and potential in that career. When he comes home from war no longer able to see himself as a baseball prospect, he isn't sure who he is. This is thoroughly ...
I came up in 1941 and I played against men who played in the 1930s. I stayed until 1963 playing against men who will be playing in the 1970s. So I think I can feel qualified to say that baseball really was a great game, and baseball is really a great...
Have I ever pretended to be something? I think back in college I think I might have told a girl that I was a professional tennis player once. And then, of course, she had never heard of me so I had to dig deeper. 'I'm just sort of on the playing sate...
I'm a sports-watcher. I played football and baseball, coached baseball. So I watch those things.
I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.
I'm a baseball fan, but I'm not qualified to make baseball decisions, and I don't want to pretend to be.
My dreams do not end with playing Major League Baseball.
A baseball team is like a band. Because, conceptually, there are no heroes in baseball - there's just the team.
You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.
Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.
I wanted to play baseball ever since I was 5 years old.
I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.
I'm not an overly skilled piano player or organ player at all, but I think I'm the right piano and organ player for the Heartbreakers. And I've been the right piano and organ player for a lot of sessions that I've been called on.
My professional life had started and here I was at a professional dinner full of uninhibited drinking.
Michael Jordan was a tremendous basketball player.
I do not consider myself a guitar player. My father is a guitar player - I'm not.
We in the Negro leagues felt like we were contributing something to baseball, too, when we were playing. We played with a round ball, and we played with a round bat. And we wore baseball uniforms, and we thought that we were making a contribution to ...
The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as 'steroids.'
I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.
Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money.
I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers' duel.
