He’s been terrific. He looks to me like a very good baseball player and a very good number two hitter.

My buddies and I wrote letters to hundreds of pofessional players, asking for autographed photos. Occasionally one responded, and to get a photo in th email was a reason to strut.

This has been the most important experience of my baseball career. I’m one step closer to the ultimate goal. I just need to stay on an even keel and continue working hard.

When I came into baseball, I had one goal for my career – the Hall of Fame.

If baseball is your business, you can meet in Chicago, conspire to control output to maximize profits and it’s perfectly legal, … That’s not fair and you should do something about it.

A brick is a biographical film in which a young orphan brick from the wrong side of the track grows up to be one of the most important bricks in all brick kind, as it...

Babe Ruth remains the standard by which all baseball players are graded. He was arguably the game’s first great celebrity.

Worrying about things you can’t control is a waste both on the baseball field and in life.

I’m flattered that so many baseball people think I’m a Hall of Famer. But what’s hard to believe is how one-hundred and fifty plus people have changed their minds about me since I became eligible,...

[George] Foster lacks the name recognition outside of Cincinnati that other members of the Big Red machine maintain, but that doesn’t diminish his contributions to the club—he followed his MVP campaign with three more seasons...

We talked about baseball and how it has changed in the minor leagues. Since I played, the change is just phenomenal. The growth in minor league baseball is outstanding.

Bruce Sutter and his new pitch, the split finger fastball, fascinate the manager of the Cuban national teams. ‘We must find out about this new weapon,’ he said. ‘Are the American hitters plotting to murder...

I like to be in a position of helping people. I find it very humbling that, simply by playing baseball, I’m in position to help so many people. I never take that for granted.

The fearful happenings of the second game need not be lingered over, being now as well known as the circumstances surrounding the fall of Troy. Until the gods began their heavy-handed meddling, it was a...

I think it’s a great idea. I think it’s good for baseball, I really do. I just think it’s not good for Billy Wagner.

I love the MLB app, because I’m a pretty obsessed baseball fan.

It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.

[The first returns on Carlos Guillen ‘s progress, now that he has resumed baseball activities, is] nothing out of the ordinary, … It was slow. He won’t be ready in a day or two, I...

I was warming up and one [Venezuelan] ran from the dugout. It’s funny to see that because I’ve never been to a country where baseball is the number one sport. It’s cool to see that...

Self-discipline is a form of freedom. Freedom from laziness and lethargy, freedom from expectations and demands of others, freedom from weakness and fear — and doubt.

His lips are against my ear and I feel the warmth of his body surrounding me, caging me in, comforting me.

I hope the Classic remains and those responsible for eliminating baseball from the Olympic Games were able to see the great show that baseball is all about.

Jacksonville welcomed the World Golf Hall of Fame with open arms and wallets in 1998. If you’re not familiar with golf, it’s a sport where you swing a stick at a ball, like baseball in...

I love the game of baseball.

I was nervous before, but once you get out there and start playing baseball, it’s not that big of a deal. That’s the big thing for us young guys is to feel comfortable out there....

You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. [Dick Cramer]

All year we play pretty good baseball. Cleveland has played outstanding. We can’t control that. Now, we have a chance to control that.

Henry successfully kept his mind on the game, which might seem strange for a boy who slept beside a wall of magic. But baseball was as magical to him as a green, mossy mountain covered...

The reporter asked, “why did you play so hard.””Because there might have been somebody in the stands today who’d never seen my play before, and might never see me again”-Joe DiMaggio

He has a tremendous baseball mind. When I have someone like that sitting next to me, I feel confident there is not too much that’s going to get by us during the course of a...

I have to absorb the new season like sunlight, letting it turn my winter skin pink and then brown. I must stuff myself with lore and statistics until my fingers ooze balm.

Dave Concepción exceeded everyone’s expectations—everyone’s except, perhaps, his own. That’s because as a kid, Concepción idolized Major League Hall of Fame shortstop and fellow-Venezuelan Luis Aparicio, and he aspired to become that same caliber of...

We think this will be a big boost for baseball in China and it will help promote a sport that has been neglected.

A man has to have goals – for a day, for a lifetime – and that was mine, to have people say, ‘There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.

Any loss is tough. Santana showed today why he’s one of the best pitchers in baseball.

Since that first game, we’ve been playing good baseball. With this being vacation, you worry about the kids’ focus, so I’m glad to get this one out of the way.

I am not sure right now, but I will play baseball or basketball in college.

Whenever I wasn’t watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.

Professional baseball is on the wane. Salaries must come down or the interest of the public must be increased in some way.

Being voted into the Hall of Fame is the biggest individual honor in baseball. Being voted in on the first ballot is what cements your place in history as one of the greatest to ever...

How can I play baseball when I’m worried about foreign policy?

I hope they enjoyed our baseball team. We had a very nice clinic for young kids that went well. It was a good day for our program and a good day hopefully for the city...

These are things that simply happen in the game of baseball. If this were to occur on a frequent basis for Cuba, this would be rather worrisome. But this is not the case.

To go down like that hit by a baseball going 100 mph and to be out there playing catch, I’m very fortunate, … As long as there is no pain I should be fine.

This program is phenomenal and this is a good win for our program and our baseball team. You don’t get a top-25 ranking by accident and they are a quality team.

I love to watch baseball because I understand it, and I’m a big fan of it. But [with] football, I can watch a whole game. With baseball, I’ll usually watch an inning-and-a-half and turn to...

I feel great. My body feels better not having to work out for football and baseball at the same time, and it’s a relief just to be able to focus on baseball 100 percent.

What we play is a National League-style of baseball. This is the way baseball should be played.

Of all the unusual things my father did in baseball, … my favorite hands down was the exploding scoreboard.