In my judgment, the reason the vote was taken is a simple one: Baseball and softball are not European sports. The Olympics are Euro-centric and Euro-dominated. I don’t think there’s much more to it than...

You’ve got to be the man to have a major league baseball game stop for you and to have a five-minute tribute and to have five or six curtain calls. That’s when you know you’ve...

That moment, when you first lay eyes on that field — The Monster, the triangle, the scoreboard, the light tower Big Mac bashed, the left-field grass where Ted (Williams) once roamed — it all defines...

I learned the most I’ve ever learned in one year in baseball, from getting knocked down and getting back up and getting knocked down again. Sometimes that’s good for you.

I believe that part of what the World Classic did was remind people that baseball talent comes from all over the world. There are a lot of people playing this game.

The key to playing the whole major league season and then playing winter baseball is working out hard and not being careless for a second.

Of the 13 guys on our roster, I think 12 played summer and fall baseball. I think that’s helped a lot. Some of them played at very high levels on their summer teams, so that’s...

If you’re a baseball fan, that’s one of the best ones you’ll ever see.

My best moment in professional baseball? You’re looking at it right now. I’m in my hometown and I am a big league player about to play in Yankee Stadium. Does it get better?

One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.

love of sport.

I’m glad there are organizations like Dale Murphy’s I Won’t Cheat Foundation. I’m glad there are athletes with standards and morals who kids can look up to and learn from. I’m glad that for every...

I see great things in baseball.

Bottom half of the seventh, Brock’s boy had made it through another inning unscratched, one! two! three! Twenty-one down and just six outs to go! and Henry’s heart was racing, he was sweating with relief...

I was a hyper kid, so I didn’t want to play baseball and wait for the ball to come to me. I wanted to play a sport where I could go get the ball.

Okay you guys, pair up in threes!

Baseball and football are very different games. In a way, both of them are easy. Football is easy if you’re crazy as hell. Baseball is easy if you’ve got patience. They’d both be easier for...

If you’re wondering what’s wrong with Fenway Park in the first place, you’re not the only one. Fenway is special precisely because it has what modern stadiums lack: seats that, while often cramped, offer the...

If all we had was Boz, he’d be catching. He’s just the kind of baseball player that can do it all, so we’re real fortunate to have him.

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...

When you?re up 9-0 it?s supposed to be easy. But things are rarely easy in college baseball, and from that standpoint I was pleased with the way we came back.

It was a great spectacle. In games like this, baseball wins.

This is about the coolest thing I’ve ever done on a baseball field. I can’t even put it into words.

That’s part of baseball. You’re going to have those days. The name of the game is picking each other up.

Growing up, I used to use and apple instead of a baseball. It was just more fun to hit, and a healthier and better tasting snack than America’s favorite pastime.

I think he’s definitely earned the respect of baseball players everywhere.

I know we like to think baseball is America’s game, but that isn’t totally true. There are some teams out there that can play this game pretty well.

I think I could have become an outstanding professional baseball player, but I don’t think I could have reached the heights that I have in football – being one of the very top players in...

In the sixties, dear Bill, we did not say ‘top’ and ‘bottom’ – we said ‘pitcher’ and ‘catcher’…

He was the only player in the history of baseball that everybody loved.

I’m always ready on Opening Day. It’s been the weirdest Spring Training that I’ve ever had. The World Baseball Classic didn’t help, but I feel great and my body feels great.

They (Maryville High School) have playing and practice venues all across the city. For example, baseball will play at Maryville College soccer at John Sevier School, so we’re really just all over. It becomes a...

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.

I’m a big baseball fan for sure. I don’t know why we started doing it. It was just kind of funny and we always pick out baseball names from my childhood, because that’s when the...

Baseball really is a glorified game of throw and catch. And if you don’t have guys who throw it really well, you can’t compete for long.

Pete Rose” dive into cardboard boxes used for bases … whether they needed to slide or not.

It’s early. But if I had to pick one poll for us to be No. 1 in, I’d pick Baseball America. Those people really know what they’re doing.

He’s a poster boy for Major League Baseball. We got our lead guy and it’s a great thrill for the organization.

There’s always things that happen from time to time that put baseball into perspective for everybody, and this is certainly one of those instances,

Honestly, I’m on the road so much that I never really get a chance to go to baseball games.

Former Journey lead singer Steve Perry was a lifelong Giants fan who grew up in the San Joaquin Valley. When the Dodgers started showing him on the big screen during their nightly sing-along, Perry protested...

It’s there, these guys can play man. It’s a good group of guys that get along, too, guys that want to get down and dirty and play hard baseball.

I never get nervous. Baseball consists of two things: hitting and pitching, and we’ve got both.

Athletes are born winners, there not born loosers, and the sooner you understand this, the faster you can take on a winning attitude and become sucessful in life.

In baseball, you can’t kill the clock. You’ve got to give the other man his chance. That’s why this is the greatest game.

It wouldn’t be unthinkable that he would chase her out with a baseball bat,

Cuba has shown the world that we have our heart in baseball. This classic is a historic event. We are not professionals. We don’t get paid to play. But we ranked second, well deserved. I...

Who is he anyhow, an actor?””No.””A dentist?””…No, he’s a gambler.” Gatsby hesitated, then added cooly: “He’s the man who fixed the World Series back in 1919.””Fixed the World Series?” I repeated.The idea staggered me. I...

There’s a lot of baseball to be played.

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