Baseball is a game of inches.
The world’s not so simple anymore, I guess it never was. We ignored it, now we can’t.
A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
Leo Durocher is a man with an infinite capacity for making a bad thing worse.
He (Leo Durocher) had the ability of taking a bad situation and making it immediately worse.
Baseball people are generally allergic to new ideas; it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms, and it is the hardest thing in the world to get Major League Baseball to change anything—even spikes on a new pair of shoes—but they will eventually...they are bound to.