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Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball

Ken Harrelson

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

Jim Bouton

Say this much for big league baseball - it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America

Bruce Catton

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.

Bill Veeck

Baseball is the only place in life where a sacrifice is really appreciated

Unknown

You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the goddamn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all

Earl Weaver

It's no coincidence that female interest in the sport of baseball has increased greatly since the ballplayers swapped those wonderful old-time baggy flannel uniforms for leotards.

Mike Royko

Baseball, to me, is still the national pastime because it is a summer game. I feel that almost all Americans are summer people, that summer is what they think of when they think of their childhood. I think it stirs up an incredible emotion within people

Steve Busby

A baseball fan has the digestive apparatus of a billy goat. He can, and does, devour any set of diamond statistics with insatiable appetite and then nuzzles hungrily for more

Daley

A baseball park is the one place where a man's wife doesn't mind his getting excited over somebody else's curves

Brendan Francis

Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it's beginning to seem that way. We're reaching the point where you can be a truly dedicated, state-of-the-art fan or you can have a life. Take your pick

Thomas Boswell

The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love

Bryant Gumbel

Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine

Pat Conroy

More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.

Thomas Boswell

I don't love baseball. I don't love most of today's players. I don't love the owners. I do love, however, the baseball that is in the heads of baseball fans. I love the dreams of glory of 10-year-olds, the reminiscences of 70-year-olds. The greatest baseball arena is in our heads, what we bring to the games, to the telecasts, to reading newspaper reports.

Stan Isaacs

Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker's responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams

Roger Kahn

Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up

Sharon Olds

The place was always cold, and I got the feeling that the fans would have enjoyed baseball more if it had been played with a hockey puck

Andre Dawson

A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time

William C. Feather

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona.

George F. Will

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead

Jackie Robinson

Reading about baseball is a lot more interesting than reading about chess, but you have to wonder: Don't any of these guys ever go fishing?

Dave Shiflett

I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery

Ty Cobb

England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball

Robert Benchley

Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too

Greg

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