The White Sox had long ago tested the loyalty of their rooters; the weak and faint of heart had fallen by the wayside and only the strong, the dedicated and the masochistic remained. If there...

Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.

We lived and died on every pitch, … This was the most exciting year, and, let me tell you, I have seen a lot of teams.

Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?

I did my best to look ashamed of myself.

After a month or so in St. Louis, we were looking around desperately for a way to draw a few people into the ball park, it being perfectly clear by that time that the ball...

McGraw had been a great friend of my father’s in the days when McGraw was managing the New York Giants and my daddy was president of the Chicago Cubs.

To give one can of beer to a thousand people is not nearly as much fun as to give 1,000 cans of beer to one guy. You give a thousand people a can of beer...

I try not to kid myself. You know, I don’t mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous.

There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.

I was in the game for love. After all, where else can an old-timer with one leg, who can’t hear or see, live like a king while doing the only thing I wanted to do?

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can’t get you off.

What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up...

The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.

The Falstaff people, romantics all, went for it. They were so anxious to find out what I was going to do that they could hardly bear to wait out the two weeks. I was rather...

I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity.

There are only two seasons — winter and Baseball.

I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.

Im for the dreamers. The only really important things in history have been started by the dreamers. They never know what cant be done.

I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.

Not really — they lean towards cash.

The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.