Boston got Roberts on the July 31 trade deadline—exchanging prospect Henri Stanley for the fleet-footed outfielder. Roberts fittingly got 86 at bats for Boston, but it was his speed on the bases that the Red...

How soon do you think it is? Time will tell me. When it’s autumn, the leaves fall. When the time comes, I’ll know it. [Responding to a question about when he will start throwing his...

Really, it’s not harder to train for them because once baseball starts you play everyday almost.

Yeah… I’d like that.

This was a fun game to watch. There were some exciting plays and just good competitive baseball. I thought we could have pushed across a few more runs, but we played good enough to win.

Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason – because some people like them. It’s the same with baseball statistics.

I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.

It’s funny how a 162-game season turns into a 29-game season now. It’s going to go right down to the wire.

I have explained many times that I am, by Profession, a Gambler — not some jock-sniffing nerd or a hired human squawk-box with the brain of a one-cell animal. No. That would be your average...

I’m frozen in place as his eyes rake over me.

Our message is already out there from our international competitions. I think we showed people that baseball is spoken here, baseball and nothing else.

People need to recognize that this is one of the greatest players, if not the greatest baseball player ever. We should cherish the last year or two years or 20 days we have him. I...

My main lucky number is 9. That was my baseball number in high school. My other lucky number is 3, because that’s the one I wore before I got to high school and had to...

Baseball is just a game. But like religion, it has rituals. I need rituals. I need traditions. I need something to believe in, whether I worship in a church or a stadium. I believe in...

Ben: You know what’s really great about baseball? Lindsey Meeks: Hmm? Ben: You can’t fake it. You know, anything else in life you don’t have to be great in – business, music, art – I...

Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand.

Every manager in baseball does what I did. The day after you clinch, you play your bench guys. (Atlanta manager) Bobby Cox does it and he’s a genius. I do it and everybody says I...

It was great, nice for the guys. Now we can concentrate on playing baseball.

This would mean a great deal to the Latin players, … I think we’d all like to see baseball do this.

We’ve got a tremendous amount of baseball to play in 2006. If you get effort like that every night from that group of players, things are going to get going here and we’re going to...

Why? Why should the bond between a people and their baseball team be so intense? Fenway Park is a part of it, offering a physical continuum to the bond, not only because Papi can stand...

It’s much easier to remember the World Series heroics of Tony Pérez, Pete Rose, and Joe Morgan than it is to recall who set the table for Rose during Game 7 of the 1975 World...

Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on...

If there was magic in this world, it happened within sight of the three bases and home plate. All the gems in my world that decorated the walls and floors of dragons’ lairs, the sword...

We think it was a great spring training. With the (World Baseball Classic) event there, there were a lot of people worried about how that was going to affect Cactus League play, but we think...

I’m human and I’ve played my butt off for ten years. I’m not a loafer, I’m not a jerk, I’m a baseball player.

It’s the part of baseball that (stinks). You can form some great friendships with teammates, and in an instant, they’re gone.

In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.

I think this is just the beginning for baseball. If they keep doing this, the game will get bigger and better, and maybe even bigger than soccer.

Tucker could have used a little more support: we didn’t hit the ball, didn’t take advantage of when we had runners in position to do something and we didn’t act like we wanted to play...

It’s the mathematical potential for a single game to last forever, in a suspended world where no clock rules the day, that aligns baseball as much with the dead as the living.

For your penance, say two Hail Marys, three our Fathers, and,” he added, with a chuckle, “say a special prayer for the Dodgers.

Let’s fight together so this event won’t be held every four years but rather every two, so the baseball world won’t have to wait so long to enjoy this.

We try to take it from one at-bat to the next, ya know it’s easier said than done, but all put together it looks good in the end.

If over time the World Baseball Classic works the way we hope it will, I think the next time there is a discussion it will be the IOC asking us to come back.

That’s a very good question. Major League Baseball has to make it clear what it wants to do. They’re the ones on the spot.

You want to go out like baseball guys get to do the next night. But you have to wait the whole week, and that’s no fun.

This is the second day now that I do not know the result of the juegos he thought. But I must have confidence and I must be worthy of the great DiMaggio who does all...

There’s still a lot of baseball left in Sosa, he’s only had one bad year and has a lot to offer the Dominican team.

I’ve fallen in love with baseball.

We’re trying to get those guys that are part of the (World Baseball Classic) out of here early, so we do it in order of seniority and hierarchy, and Wheels is a senior member of...

It was baseball hell in Colorado. For some strange reason, we weren’t getting it done. Eventually, it’s got to change. The big thing is we’ve got to stay positive.

They don’t think it be like it is, but it do.

Pitching and defense has been the name of the game in baseball forever. I don’t care what level you’re playing at. My philosophy since I started managing has been that, before you can look at...

It?s going to be a special place. And not just for baseball, but because you have that whole row for the athletics complex. We?re going to have these nice new fields, something all the kids...

I probably haven’t faced a lineup like them, but for me, I’m not scared of anybody. They’re baseball players just like I am. They put their unis on the same way I do. It’s about...

In 2002, in this country, there was an observation that for the first time in America, more kids were actively pursuing skateboarding than baseball.

Casey knew his baseball. He only made it look like he was fooling around. He knew every move that was ever invented and some that we haven’t even caught on to yet.

They haven’t gotten to that point where baseball is the most important thing in their lives. They got other things going on and as a coach, you have to step back and let them live...

But Little League can be a great experience for kids, as long as they want to play–and don’t play to bring their parents glory.