I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.

Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?

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 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.

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

Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.