The appeal of baseball is intimately wrapped up with one’s youth. Baseball is very much about being young again in a harmless way. And one of its core appeals is to remind America of a time when it was young. You fly over a major city at night in the summer and suddenly you’ll see […]
Baseball Quotes
Driving a car is like playing baseball. The object in both is to get home safely.
It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoon and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on […]
I’m a natural left-hander, but I bat and throw right-handed because that’s the way I learned. But, I eat left and drink left and write left. I’m amphibious.
In a way an umpire is like a woman. He makes quick decisions, never reverses them, and doesn’t think you’re safe when you’re out.
Playing baseball is not real life. It’s a fantasy world – It’s a dream come true.
Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It’s the only time we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot.
Willie Mays’ glove is where triples go to die.
Because physical action is stressed in all spectator sports, some potential fans may be bored by the prospect of watching bodies run around on a playing surface. But in truth, sports – like all human endeavors – have both a mental and physical component, and the spectator who doesn’t understand what’s going on in the […]
There is no crying in baseball.
