One thing led to another. That was the only way to explain how Arnold Brinkman, who considered both professional sports and young children unjustifiable, had ended up at Yankee Stadium with a nine-year-old boy.

I think everybody in baseball knew, even before the All-Star break last year, that we were going to play this Baseball Classic, and everybody that had the desire to play prepared themselves to play for...

I only gave him B-12 vitamins. (Baseball officials) checked it out and everything was cleared.

I couldn’t be happier. I’m playing major league baseball and having fun. I’m a California guy – it’s exciting for me. I wish the Dodgers well, wish their team well.

Early in the season, we shot ourselves in the foot. The last couple months of the baseball season, you want to make it tough on other teams.

If you focus on the statistics, that’s the worst thing you can do in your life as a baseball player,

They got a couple of clutch hits – that’s the way it works in baseball. It’s not like we were playing in cold weather and they were playing in warm.

I think what they’re doing for College for Kids is magnificent. These retired football players, baseball players and all these athletes seem to be getting into this.

The career batting average (.254) during parts of five Major League seasons for Francisco Cabrera—which proves that it takes only one big hit, on the right stage, to become a legend. Cabrera is still honored...

Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It’s no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It’s a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.

A baseball manager is a necessary evil.

I don’t know if you can have a big game in August, but it was a big game to us. For the last two weeks, we haven’t been playing our best baseball.

I think we have enough talent to win 40 baseball games, but we can’t do it with nine guys. We’ll probably continue to play 13 to 14 guys as starters.

The way I look at it is, if you’re going to get hurt you’re going to get hurt. It’s baseball. If you think about getting hurt, the chances are better you’re going to get hurt.

Him taking swings in a college batting cage is a long way from doing baseball work with us, … It’s just another step in his rehab. To what extent this is of any significance —...

At thirty-three the Whammer still enjoyed exceptional eyesight. He saw the ball spin off Roy’s fingertips and it reminded him of a white pigeon he had kept as a boy, that he would send into...

We’re going to the World Series, … It sounds weird to say if off my lips. Finally the baseball gods shined on us.

Some people crave baseball – I find this unfathomable but I can easily understand why a person could get excited about playing a bassoon

Let the teachers teach English and I will teach baseball. There is a lot of people in the United States who say isn’t, and they ain’t eating.

I always say baseball is my favorite sport but that this is the best event.

I watch basketball like I watch baseball: I don’t. I’d much rather watch grass grow. Actually, golf isn’t that bad.

Sometimes a strikeout means that the slugger’s girlfriend just ran off with the UPS driver. Sometimes a muffed ground ball means that the shortstop’s baby daughter has a pain in her head that won’t go...

It’s a difficult injury because almost everything you do in baseball from swinging the bat to fielding to throwing involves the oblique.

I mean, we’re talking about chocolate, for chrissake! Chocolate’s wonderful! Everyone loves it! Look at me, I’m part German! That makes me a kraut! Do you know what kraut is? It’s sauerkraut, men! Which means...

I think it’s going to be a terrific atmosphere. The four teams here are going to have good baseball.

Vowels were something else. He didn’t like them, and they didn’t like him. There were only five of them, but they seemed to be everywhere. Why, you could go through twenty words without bumping into...

There’s a lot of talent around the world. Anybody playing major league baseball, you look to your left there might be a player from Korea, you look to your right there might be a player...

The guys played aggressive baseball, but they were also being selective at the plate, unlike (Tuesday) when they were swinging at many first pitches.

We hit some balls hard right at guys today. That’s baseball, we also benefit from that, too.

I’m helplessly and permanently a Red Sox fan. It was like first love…You never forget. It’s special. It’s the first time I saw a ballpark. I’d thought nothing would ever replace cricket. Wow! Fenway Park...

… there’s almost nothing worse than spending an entire day anticipating watching a Yankees vs. Red Sox game, only to have the score be 9-0 in the third inning.

The Big Red Machine”—places Sparky [Anderson] in one of the most exclusive and elite clubs in baseball history.

Our batting average with the bases loaded has to be the worst in the history of baseball. To be 22-3 and get out that much with the bases loaded is a miracle. But it’s going...

[B]aseball is diffracted by the town and ballpark where it is played… Does baseball, like a liquid, take the shape of its container?

It’s (only) been one week, but we’re trying to play winning baseball.

I enjoy talking pitching and talking baseball. And I don’t have all the answers. I don’t claim to, but I’m more than happy to share my beliefs.

Darren played with the ice cream before raising a spoonful to his mouth. I watched him lick it before he wrapped his lips around the spoon, closing his eyelids and savoring the flavor on his...

I’ll take some great things from baseball, but the people I’ve met and the experiences I’ve had in college, I’m going to miss it quite a bit.

Baseball would be a quite remarkable activity if it was the one place in the world where your co-workers didn’t have any impact on how productive you were. But in fact, baseball is a high-stress...

I led the league in “Go get ’em next time.”

That’s just baseball. The way we came out today, you can’t explain it. A couple of hits went our way, and it turned into a big game for us.

Baseball is a tough enough game. I try not to mix what is needed on the field with what is expected from those off the field. It isn’t a good thing.

My heart starts to pound as he gets closer and closer to the stands, never taking his eyes off me.

I think the message has been delivered. Baseball is baseball in all parts of the world ? be it in the big leagues, be it amateur. You have to value baseball as such. It’s not...

That’s a Winner

Being able to host Florida downtown at the Jacksonville Baseball Grounds is big. I really appreciate ( Florida head coach) Pat McMahon agreeing to play us here. It’s a great opportunity for our kids and...

I also knew that I was on my way to becoming the worst athlete in the history of American boyhood.

There couldn’t have been a better Hollywood ending for us. It’s beyond baseball. It’s rooting for your family.

Lou Gehrig’s Farewell SpeechFans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth. I have...

That’s the way people should be playing baseball, play hard. I like those kinds of games.