Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It’s gossip

I remember watching a summer baseball game in Gorham a few years back. Off in the distance there was a kid on the schoolyard court. It was Jeff. He started to grow in high school....

You just think of them playing baseball and basketball, anything fun, not waiting for someone to come out and attack them.

Major League Baseball and Holiday Inn are going to hit a home run. I just had to say that.

spirit, love of life and baseball.

If you put the ball in play in high school baseball, you’ve always got a chance. We’d been striking out quite a bit so far (this season), but we did a better job of putting...

Baseball gets better for whatever reason.

I ain’t ever had a job, I just always played baseball.

Freddie Freeman led all Braves’ starters with a (.282) batting average in 2011. Not bad for a rookie. Then again, this is the kid who hit his first big league bomb against none other than...

The most significant in Canadian baseball history, the finishing touch to Stern’s inside-the-park homer. It was a drive which brought the Dream Team to its knees.

To me it will be one more of those esoteric statistics, one more of those historic footnotes that make baseball so great, because it is unpredictable,

You know, when I was a young boy I used to play baseball in my back yard or in the street with my brothers or the neighborhood kids. We used broken bats and plastic golf...

We have tremendous respect for the player and what he has meant to the game of baseball.

He pushed me. I just kept the faith that I would be back for baseball.

ESPN, is having the ability to foretell future outcomes in sports.

I don’t think baseball owes colored people anything. I don’t think colored people owe baseball anything, either.

Umpires made more seven years ago than they do now. Baseball has had tremendous growth and the pressure on officiating to be next to super human is very evident.

I was lucky enough to have the talent to play baseball. That’s how I treated my career. I didn’t think I was anybody special, anybody different.

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member’s talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

It’s one of those things. Baseball is a funny game. Every club can beat any club. They come out and play great against us. It’s hard to believe to see where they’re standing. They’ve got...

If you don’t like the way the Atlanta Braves are playing then you don’t like baseball.

[On writing:] “There’s a great quote by Julius Irving that went, ‘Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don’t feel like doing them.'”(One On 1, interview with...

[It’s one of the great enduring absurdities of baseball: As much as the game is ruled by numbers and endlessly deconstructed by statisticians, most ball clubs don’t have any reliable method for determining how far...

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]