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.

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.

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.

When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.

Tradition is the albatross around the neck of progress.

This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.

Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.