Nicknames are baseball, names like Zeke and Pie and Kiki and Home Run and Cracker and Dizzy and Dazzy.
Ernie HarwellWhen I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career.
Ernie HarwellIn baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's.
Ernie HarwellThere's a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus Wagner hit a triple in Pittsburgh 46 years ago. That's baseball.
Ernie Harwell