Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.

The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.

I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.

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.

It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball's wounds are self-inflicted.

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

The Falstaff people, romantics all, went for it. They were so anxious to find out what I was going to do that they could hardly bear to wait out the two weeks. I was rather anxious to find out what I was going to do, too.