Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width.

Three strikes, you're out. I don't care if you hire Edward Bennett Williams to defend you; three strikes, you're still out. Baseball is an island of stability in an unstable world.

The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.

What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat.

If U.S. Grant had been leading a team of baseball players, they'd have second guessed him all the way to the doorknob of the Appomattox Courthouse.

Hating the Yankees isn't part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction.

Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn't changed