Speed is a great asset; but it's greater when it's combined with quickness - and there's a big difference.

The crowd makes the ballgame.

The way those clubs shift against Ted Williams, I can't understand how he can be so stupid not to accept the challenge to him and hit to left field.

I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.

Walter Johnson's fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed.

The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.

He (Shoeless Joe Jackson) was the finest natural hitter in the history of the game.