A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance. The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide - these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man's last name or the pigmentation of his skin.

Fill in any figure you want for that boy (Mickey Mantle). Whatever the figure, it's a deal.

I am alarmed at the subtle invasion of professional football, which is gaining preeminence over baseball. It's unthinkable.

He (Leo Durocher) had the ability of taking a bad situation and making it immediately worse.

Leo Durocher is a man with an infinite capacity for making a bad thing worse.

We win if the world is convinced of two things, that you are a fine gentleman, and a great baseball player.

These are uncertain times. We cannot be content to rest on yesterday's laurels. These are times when we must strengthen rather than let down those standards which have stood in such good stead in crises that are past. Baseball cannot be selfish, or irresponsible, or lax. Neither can the men who operate it.