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...

In my country, the Dominican Republic, people are very excited about the World Baseball Classic. People are always asking me, ‘Are you going to play? Are you going to play?’ It’s what they want to...

History shows that baseball has grown as TV and media coverage have grown. Our mission is to serve fans and do it in all our media.

I’ll convert a school desk into a tricycle, because how else am I supposed to learn to love? It’s not like baseball gloves are very effective oven mitts.

I like watching baseball as much as my grandma’s left ear is loud. (She’d probably give her right ear for a left ear that wasn’t soundproof).

The man on the rock had pitched five outs in the losing game, and had given up two runs on a single. But he’d inherited loaded bases. The story of his life. The story of...

He didn’t hit it very well at all, but he hit it in a wonderful spot. That’s baseball.

It’s almost been contempt of Congress — not legal contempt of Congress, but contempt of Congress by baseball, … They’re going to find out what real power is, and it has nothing to do with...

You didn’t play baseball that well with two hands. How do you think you’re going to make it with one? “If you’re just going to tell me what I can’t do, you can leave.

He’s been great for the game of baseball. Everything that man touches is magic.

A team of giants needs giant pitchers who throw good ideas but every pitcher needs an outstanding catcher. Without giant catchers, the ideas of the giant pitchers may eventually disappear.

These guys enjoy the competition. They are baseball players — that’s what they do. Because they are representing the country makes it more special. I expect good things. There is a lot of pride for...

Why do we remember the Boys of Summer? We remember because we were young when they were, of course. But more, we remember because we feel the ache of guilt and regret. While they were...

This is a great win. It was a great high school baseball game. It was well-played by both teams ? defensively, especially. It’s a great way for us to start our league play.

If there are any curses left in baseball, they are all on the north side of Chicago.

…it was one at bat during October 1975 that defined his [Joe Morgan’s] place in baseball history and secured the legacy of the Big Red Machine, all with one swing.

He’s spent his time talking about baseball, now he’s playing dodgeball. I think the American people have a right to know the judicial philosophy of Judge Roberts.

The crowd and its team had finally understood that in games, as in many things, the ending, the final score, is only part of what matters. The process, the pleasure, the grain of the game...

And it started out fun. We were chattering enthusiastically, flipping between CNN, MSNBC, and FOX News. But as the evening wore on, and the numbers rolled in, it got quieter, and I found myself becoming...

Going home and just seeing what a mess youth baseball was was an eye-opener. I just want to make it a better game.

Even with the benefit of steroids most modern players still couldn’t hit as many home runs as Babe Ruth hit on hotdogs.

He’s probably done as much as he can down here. Now, he’ll be in a baseball domain. I’d like to see him in a simulated game, but that’s probably difficult to do. And there’s a...

Carlos has already been impressive. Getting him and Scott on the team from baseball gives us an added boost. Scott is very strong and athletic, and he picked up the game quickly this winter during...

My message to a lot of guys is, if you like school and you like education, baseball is gonna be there, and you can get some of the same great competition in college that you...

I have explained many times that I am, by Profession, a Gambler — not some jock-sniffing nerd or a hired human squawk-box with the brain of a one-cell animal. No. That would be your average...

I’m frozen in place as his eyes rake over me.

Our message is already out there from our international competitions. I think we showed people that baseball is spoken here, baseball and nothing else.

People need to recognize that this is one of the greatest players, if not the greatest baseball player ever. We should cherish the last year or two years or 20 days we have him. I...

My main lucky number is 9. That was my baseball number in high school. My other lucky number is 3, because that’s the one I wore before I got to high school and had to...

Baseball is just a game. But like religion, it has rituals. I need rituals. I need traditions. I need something to believe in, whether I worship in a church or a stadium. I believe in...

Ben: You know what’s really great about baseball? Lindsey Meeks: Hmm? Ben: You can’t fake it. You know, anything else in life you don’t have to be great in – business, music, art – I...

Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand.

Every manager in baseball does what I did. The day after you clinch, you play your bench guys. (Atlanta manager) Bobby Cox does it and he’s a genius. I do it and everybody says I...

It was great, nice for the guys. Now we can concentrate on playing baseball.

This would mean a great deal to the Latin players, … I think we’d all like to see baseball do this.

We’ve got a tremendous amount of baseball to play in 2006. If you get effort like that every night from that group of players, things are going to get going here and we’re going to...

Why? Why should the bond between a people and their baseball team be so intense? Fenway Park is a part of it, offering a physical continuum to the bond, not only because Papi can stand...

It’s much easier to remember the World Series heroics of Tony Pérez, Pete Rose, and Joe Morgan than it is to recall who set the table for Rose during Game 7 of the 1975 World...

Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on...

If there was magic in this world, it happened within sight of the three bases and home plate. All the gems in my world that decorated the walls and floors of dragons’ lairs, the sword...

We think it was a great spring training. With the (World Baseball Classic) event there, there were a lot of people worried about how that was going to affect Cactus League play, but we think...

I’m human and I’ve played my butt off for ten years. I’m not a loafer, I’m not a jerk, I’m a baseball player.

It’s the part of baseball that (stinks). You can form some great friendships with teammates, and in an instant, they’re gone.

Yeah… I’d like that.

This was a fun game to watch. There were some exciting plays and just good competitive baseball. I thought we could have pushed across a few more runs, but we played good enough to win.

Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason – because some people like them. It’s the same with baseball statistics.

I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.

It’s funny how a 162-game season turns into a 29-game season now. It’s going to go right down to the wire.