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.

He has the body of a professional athlete, chiseled to perfection in all the right places.

I hope I never do anything to hurt baseball.

Probably the reason the NY Yankees want to move their farm team to Ocala is to recruit me. I am the Babe Ruth of farming.

I used to think Romeo and Juliet was the greatest love story ever written. But now that I’m middle-aged, I know better. Oh, Romeo certainly thinks he loves his Juliet. Driven by hormones, he unquestionably...

There’s no closer in baseball that’s perfect, though we lost one (Gagne) who’s as close to being one as there is. Brazoban has done a great job.

It is a really big deal to throw strikes in high school baseball. Walks are so big, and it was nice that we didn’t give them up. Our guys really threw well. If we can...

The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating or depressing, depending on how you felt about baseball. The same intellectual resources...

A couple of my guys need rest. They’ve been playing a lot of baseball. I gotta rest my players.

Baseball is a game of repetition. We just need to keep working at it.

The first and last duty of the lover of the game of baseball,” Peavine’s book began, “whether in the stands or on the field, is the same as that of the lover of life itself:...

To age with dignity and courage cuts close to what it is to be a man.

God what an outfield,’ he says. ‘What a left field.’ He looks up at me, and I look down at him. ‘This must be heaven,’ he says.No. It’s Iowa,’ I reply automatically. But then I...

There’s a reason diehard fans get to the ballpark hours before game time. It’s not for better parking. It’s not for extra time to find our seats. It’s not so we’ll have time to down...

Sometimes, in a tight game with runners on, digging in at short, ready to break with the ball, a peace I’d never felt before would paralyze the diamond. For a moment of eternal stillness I...

That was a big inning. Baseball’s funny. You pound the ball and nothing happens. Then you put it in play and things start happening.

Baseball is also a game of balance.

It’s all about the nature of the sport. Baseball doesn’t make money in college. There might be two or three baseball programs that break even.

You’ll see very discreet signage. It won’t look like a baseball stadium.