I see great things in baseball. It’s our game – the American game. It will take our people out of doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.
Baseball Quotes
Mathewson pitched against Cincinnati yesterday. Another way of putting it is that Cincinnati lost a game of baseball. The first statement means the same as the second.
Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball and they tell you to hit it square.
It (baseball) is an American institution and more lasting than some marriages, war, Supreme Court decisions and even major depressions.
The only thing worse than a Mets game is a Mets double header.
All the bushleague batters Are left to die on the diamond. In the stands the home crowd scatters For the turnstiles.
It’s a mere moment in a man’s life between the all-star game and an old timer’s game.
The team has come along slow but fast.
In the great department store of life, baseball is the toy department.
