“Playing baseball for pay - home runTeaching kids to play the game - priceless”

“There was a baseball game on but it didn't look real. It was guys in uniforms playing games on a deep green field. They were playing baseball as if baseball was important and as if all the world wasn't in jail, watching them from a completely different world.”

“When I began playing the game, baseball was as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.”

“Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. ”

“Books lined the shelves of bookstores like kids standing in a row to play baseball or soccer, and mine was the gangly, unathletic kid that no one wanted on their team.”

“Baseball, football, basketball - these quintessentially American pastimes are recognizably sports because they involve play: they are games. One plays football, one doesn't play boxing...The boxing match is the very image, the more terrifying for being so stylized, of mankind's collective aggression; its ongoing historical madness.”