People identify with the swashbuckling individuals, not polite little men who field their position well. Sir Galahad had a big following - but I'll bet Lancelot had more.

If you can't outsmart people, outwork them.

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

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.

How can you be a sage if you're pretty? You can't get your wizard papers without wrinkles.

Baseball is a boy's game that makes grown men cry.

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