I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.
My professional life had started and here I was at a professional dinner full of uninhibited drinking.
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.
Taking in a baseball game on TV is also a big treat.
The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons.
If you put a baseball and other toys in front of a baby, he'll pick up a baseball in preference to the others.
Professional sports is a business.
I never picked up my phone and called a bookmaker and bet on a baseball game from the clubhouse. Never.
You have to have a lot of little boy in you to play baseball for a living.
If my uniform doesn't get dirty, I haven't done anything in the baseball game.
I've always loved baseball. Ever since 6th grade, I was geared to becoming a baseball writer.
I never want to sit out. I want to play baseball games.
I listen to NPR and baseball games when I'm in my car. I mean, exclusively NPR and baseball games, and that's it, as far as the radio.
You can't get real happy or real depressed when you play baseball. Baseball is a great sport in that it offers a player a lot of opportunities for atonement.
In '83, we went over to Amsterdam. I just remember people saying, 'Baseball's just starting over here. They're learning how to play the game of baseball.'
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.
