It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.

Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.

No one man is superior to the game.

Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.

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.

People will say I'm an idealist. I hope so.