For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism.

Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.

The professionals must set a good example.

The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest players has engaged in a variety of acts which have stained the game, and he must now live with the consequences of those acts. There is absolutely no deal for reinstatement.

Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.

There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.