Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.
The only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War.
We win if the world is convinced of two things, that you are a fine gentleman, and a great baseball player.
He's the best prospect I've ever seen.
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.
Baseball is a game of inches.