It couldn’t happen any better, … This is a Hollywood script. It’s so good for baseball. It’s great for the rivalry between New York and Boston. And there might be baseball Monday, you never know.

And then came, perhaps, the biggest offseason move in franchise history … and no, we’re not talking about inviting Carlos Peña to camp or hiring Joe Maddon or appointing Andrew Friedman as Executive Vice President...

Maintain ‘baseball cards’ and/or ‘believability matrixes’ for your people. Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right...

You had thoughts of it. When I was a kid [before] Jackie Robinson integrated baseball, he played for Montreal, which played against Buffalo, and I would go watch them play. They were one step [away]...

The boys today, they play little baseball outside organized practices and things like that.

The soccer side will be heavily involved in camps. Baseball will have an everyday presence.

I think we were the best team in baseball the second half of last season. With the young guys getting a lot of experience last year, we really improved.

I have been a fan all my life, but now I have been out of football for over 10 years, and out of baseball for a little over six years and I don’t go to...

The baseball is going to dictate it. You can’t predict not doing well because not everybody’s in good shape, so you never know what could happen. We have a good team.

Everyone bets on baseball and there is no bigger player than the Rocket. He is apt to have a real impact on whatever team he signs with, so fans will be watching closely. Only a...

It is the life-affirming genius of baseball that the short can pummel the tall, the rotund can make fools of the sleek, and no matter how far down you find yourself in the bottom of...

Indeed, the maligned American pastime of baseball may be by-far the greatest and best sport by one criterion, when it comes to emulating and training for genuinely useful Neolithic skills! Think about it. The game...

Both teams played great baseball.

When her boyfriend broke his leg, I knew it was my chance to ask her to dance. So I put down my baseball bat and approached her like Babe Ruth.

When major-league baseball came to Kansas City, Ewing Kauffman always said Joe deserved most of the credit for making that happen.

He might not have looked good in a baseball uniform, but he made that uniform look good on him.

When I’m traveling on tour, one of my favorite things to do is to throw a baseball cap on and go to a Target. The company has always been good to me. They’ve got such...

It would be just like baseball. It would have been very easy for him to say, ‘I have the largest market and I don’t want to share.’ Which is what we have going on right...

It’s a short tournament and we have to stay humble about it. It’s baseball and anything can happen. We feel very good about the group we got here. We actually have the group we wanted...

Baseball is the only sport there is—next to bowling that is.”Luella Lorraine Lavell

white people never want to see race in anything. There’s race involved in everything. There’s race involved in baseball.

The thing about Jim Thome is that no matter where you go in baseball, nobody ever says anything negative about him. When you make a lot of money in this game, everyone wants to criticize...

Stealing signals. Isn’t that baseball?

Two innings of baseball cost us this whole game. It?s mind-boggling to me trying to digest what just happened.

This isn’t fantasy baseball.

Rally killer.” His confidence carried over to the field, just as it had since he began playing as a kid—he batted .265, and he led all rookies with 23 home runs, 87 runs, and 86...

Molly wondered if these boys really loved baseball, the sound and smell of it, the rhythm of it, the leather and wood, the grass and dirt, the story and surprise in a good game.

We’re the best team in baseball, but not by much.

And wasn’t that a great moment in baseball history,” Holly Grace replied with withering sarcasm. “Helen Keller pitching and Little Stevie Wonder catching.

Offensively, we’re sticking to the game plan and we’re playing really good baseball. The guys had really good approaches.

Even with the benefit of steroids most modern players still couldn’t hit as many home runs as Babe Ruth hit on hotdogs.

He’s probably done as much as he can down here. Now, he’ll be in a baseball domain. I’d like to see him in a simulated game, but that’s probably difficult to do. And there’s a...

Carlos has already been impressive. Getting him and Scott on the team from baseball gives us an added boost. Scott is very strong and athletic, and he picked up the game quickly this winter during...

My message to a lot of guys is, if you like school and you like education, baseball is gonna be there, and you can get some of the same great competition in college that you...

In my country, the Dominican Republic, people are very excited about the World Baseball Classic. People are always asking me, ‘Are you going to play? Are you going to play?’ It’s what they want to...

History shows that baseball has grown as TV and media coverage have grown. Our mission is to serve fans and do it in all our media.

I’ll convert a school desk into a tricycle, because how else am I supposed to learn to love? It’s not like baseball gloves are very effective oven mitts.

I like watching baseball as much as my grandma’s left ear is loud. (She’d probably give her right ear for a left ear that wasn’t soundproof).

The man on the rock had pitched five outs in the losing game, and had given up two runs on a single. But he’d inherited loaded bases. The story of his life. The story of...

He didn’t hit it very well at all, but he hit it in a wonderful spot. That’s baseball.

It’s almost been contempt of Congress — not legal contempt of Congress, but contempt of Congress by baseball, … They’re going to find out what real power is, and it has nothing to do with...

You didn’t play baseball that well with two hands. How do you think you’re going to make it with one? “If you’re just going to tell me what I can’t do, you can leave.

He’s been great for the game of baseball. Everything that man touches is magic.

A team of giants needs giant pitchers who throw good ideas but every pitcher needs an outstanding catcher. Without giant catchers, the ideas of the giant pitchers may eventually disappear.

These guys enjoy the competition. They are baseball players — that’s what they do. Because they are representing the country makes it more special. I expect good things. There is a lot of pride for...

Why do we remember the Boys of Summer? We remember because we were young when they were, of course. But more, we remember because we feel the ache of guilt and regret. While they were...

This is a great win. It was a great high school baseball game. It was well-played by both teams ? defensively, especially. It’s a great way for us to start our league play.

If there are any curses left in baseball, they are all on the north side of Chicago.

…it was one at bat during October 1975 that defined his [Joe Morgan’s] place in baseball history and secured the legacy of the Big Red Machine, all with one swing.

He’s spent his time talking about baseball, now he’s playing dodgeball. I think the American people have a right to know the judicial philosophy of Judge Roberts.