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

The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.

When the Supreme Court says baseball isn't run like a business, everybody jumps up and down with joy. When I say the same thing, everybody throws pointy objects at me.

What we have are good gray ballplayers, playing a good gray game and reading the good gray Wall Street Journal. They have been brainwashed, dry-cleaned and dehydrated!... Wake up the echoes at the Hall of Fame and you will find that baseball's immortals were a rowdy and raucous group of men who would climb down off their plaques and go rampaging through Cooperstown, taking spoils.... Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.

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

I'm for the dreamers. The only really important things in history have been started by the dreamers. They never know what can't be done.

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