Anyone with talent can play in the Major Leagues; for someone like me to stay around as long as I did, I think that’s a much greater achievement.

I’m fired up. We’ve already taken groups to athletic events in Houston. Victoria is a baseball town. I think there’s lots of interest here.

For you, some of the media and press that follow baseball, it might have been a surprise. It’s normal for us. This is the way we play baseball in Cuba.

I’m just excited for my team. To get my team on a high level of playing baseball right now. We struggled of late. I couldn’t have asked for a better outing. It was really good.

This was a wonderful event. It went beyond all expectations. Baseball can be played at a world level. Perhaps we could see each other again in two years?

Back in the Eighties, I’d buy the biggest Benetton jumper I could find and would wear it long-sleeved, hanging off my shoulders, with a varsity jacket and a baseball cap on back to front with...

Ray. People will come, Ray. They’ll come to Iowa for reasons they can’t even fathom. They’ll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why they’re doing it. They’ll arrive at your door as innocent...

Man, see, you should have picked up that bat and baseball and learned to play the game when we were trying to teach you. You ain’t going to make no money in journalism.

announce [our] presence with authority.

Today a pitcher gets fined if the umpire thinks he threw at a batter. In the olden days, the umpire didn’t have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was...

That really came at the right time for us. We just haven’t played real good baseball, and it’s tough with a young club when you have adversity early.

I wanted to play baseball!

You can’t take anything away from Central. This was a great game. It’s what high school baseball is all about.

Baseball in Italy is at a turning point. It can either take a big step forward and become really professional, or it can take two steps back.

I don’t rate them, I just hit them.

By any reasonable standard (i.e. he didn’t cheat), Aaron is one of the greatest sluggers in baseball history—and there shouldn’t even be a debate about who is baseball’s true all-time home run champion (again, no...

I’m a sports-watcher. I played football and baseball, coached baseball. So I watch those things.

And so, my beloved Kermit, my dear little Hussein, at the moment America changed forever, your father was wandering an ICBM-denuded watseland, nervously monitoring his radiation level, armed only with a baseball bat, a 10mm...

The movie was the life story of baseball pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander, who begin his professional career with a Galesburg minor league team in the early teens,

This guy is a brilliant baseball mind. And as you get to know him, you’re going to see why I made the decision.

In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted, if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the...

He’s the face of baseball in the city of Houston.

You can talk about teamwork on a baseball team, but I’ll tell you, it takes teamwork when you have 2,900 men stationed on the U.S.S. Alabama in the South Pacific.

We just want to go out and play baseball. We don’t want to have to worry about this kind of thing. Hopefully that’s the end of it on the field.

There are only two seasons — winter and Baseball.

It’s a double blow to fans in publicly owned cities. You’re not only taking away baseball but you’re making them pay taxes for stadiums sitting empty.

I feel regret and sorrow that the U.S. is not here because it is wonderful baseball. It really hurts me. It bothers me because we admire the way they play, and we would have liked...

Everybody now sees how good international baseball is. It’s going to be a long three years waiting for this to come around again.

The interesting thing is that it seems like George W. Bush would have been happy being the president of anything. He could have been president of Major League Baseball.

You look at it, you’ve got to take one game at a time and play good baseball. Yes, we started hot, but there have been a ton of teams that start hot, then they go...

He’s an excellent baseball player, that’s what he has shown me. He’s very intriguing to me.

A’s Baseball remains one of the most affordable entertainment values in all of sports. The average ticket price in 2006 will be $25.48, which still ranks in the lower third in all of baseball. And...

It?s easy to come out and play a baseball game when you?re picking up 18 to 20 wins a season. But you see what kids are made of when you go out when things don?t...

Baseball’s my life.

Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game.

Those guys are legends. You can’t say enough for those guys and what they’ve done for baseball. Both of those guys are arguably in the top 10 players in the history of the game.

Love of Fenway itself may be as much a part of the Sox’ 2.6 million annual attendance as Pedro (Martinez), Manny (Ramirez) and Nomar (Garciaparra)

On the surface, there is something peculiar about turning a portion of one’s happiness over to a collection of ballplayers, and perhaps more peculiar still is concerning oneself about ball games played decades before one’s...

There was a time we laughed at the old guys up on the hill. The ones who graduated a couple of years before us, and who would hang around the school and the ballpark still,...

…the Big Red Machine was exactly that—a freaking machine.

We have him as one of the top guys in all of baseball. He’s very sure-handed, consistent, with good range and he’s fun to watch play shortstop.

Baseball has traditionally possessed a wonderful lack of seriousness. The game’s best player, Babe Ruth, was a Rabelaisian fat man, and its most loved manager, Casey Stengel, spoke gibberish. In this lazy sport, only the...

A basketball or a baseball or a football will all break a window in different ways.

I’ve been lucky. I’ve met a lot of baseball people, and I’ve learned to value people who talk – people who talk well and in long sentences and even long paragraphs.

The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game’s greatest players has engaged in a variety of acts which have stained the game,...

Putting Henry at shortstop – it was like taking a painting that had been shoved in a closet and hanging it in the ideal spot. You instantly forgot what the room had looked like before.

I wanted to play baseball ever since I was 5 years old.

Nothing’s been promised, … It was an opportunity to talk baseball and tell them why I think I’m a good candidate.

As I grew up, I knew that as a building (Fenway Park) was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid at Giza, the nation’s capitol, the czar’s Winter Palace, and the Louvre — except,...

I want to challenge other baseball players to come out and do something for these people because they really need our help.