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.

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

Suffering is overrated. It doesn't teach you anything.

Tradition is the albatross around the neck of progress.

An island of surety in a changing world.

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.

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