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.

I told them 2005 is over, and we’re going to be a target to everyone in baseball.

It’s going to be hard, because he hasn’t played in one year, … I don’t care how good you are, baseball is a game of conditioning and timing. But, knowing him he’s so strong mentally...

He’s part-time baseball player/basketball player/bowler/ golfer. I don’t know about football.

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...