The team that wins two-thirds of its one run games usually wins the pennant.
If baseball wants to get you, they've got enough resources and enough investigators that they'll find a way to get you.
Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league.
Singles hitters drive Fords. Home-run hitters drive Cadillacs.
Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.
I haven't missed a game in two-and-a-half years. I go to the park as sick as a dog and, when I see my uniform hanging there, I get well right now. Then I see some of you guys (media) and I get sick again.