Baseball Quotes by George Will

Twenty years ago rooting for the Yankees was like rooting for IBM.

— George Will

Baseball is Heaven's gift to mortals.

— George Will

Baseball's best teams lose about sixty-five times a season. It is not a game you can play with your teeth clenched.

— George Will

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes,…

— George Will

It is an old baseball joke that big-inning baseball is affirmed in the Bible, in Genesis. "In the big inning, God created...

— George Will

It (baseball) has no clock, no ties and no Liberal intrusions into the organized progression.

— George Will

Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community.

— George Will

All I remember about my wedding day in 1967 is that the Cubs lost a double-header.

— George Will

Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial.

— George Will

Baseball is a habit. The slowly rising crescendo of each game, the rhythm of the long season--these are the essentials and they…

— George Will

Since 1946, the Cubs have had two problems: They put too few runs on the scoreboard and the other guys put too…

— George Will

Traditionally, baseball punishes preening. In a society increasingly tolerant of exhibitionism, it is splendid when a hitter is knocked down because in…

— George Will

Night baseball isn't an aberration. What's an aberration is a team that hasn't won a World Series since 1908. They tend to…

— George Will

I grew up in central Illinois midway between Chicago and St. Louis and I made an historic blunder. All my friends became…

— George Will

Baseball, like Pericles' Athens (or any other good society), is simultaneously democratic and aristrocratic. Anyone can enjoy it, but the more you…

— George Will

Baseball's rich in wonderful statistics, but it's hard to find one more beautiful than Stan Musial's hitting record. He didn't care where…

— George Will

They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice, icy islands of emotionless calculation. In short, umpires should be acute Republicans.

— George Will

Major League Baseball's labor negotiations involve two paradoxes. The players' union's primary objective is to protect the revenues of a very few…

— George Will

Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents - judges' decisions - rather than statutes, baseball's codes are the game's distilled…

— George Will

An alloy of innocence and arrogance, young (Ted) Williams came to Boston when it had four morning and four evening local newspapers…

— George Will

In a nation committed to better living through chemistry - where Viagra-enabled men pursue silicone-contoured women - the national pastime has a…

— George Will

Once when the Yankee's Lou Pinella was batting he questioned a Palermo strike call. Pinella demanded, "Where was that pitch at?" Palermo…

— George Will

I just got hooked on the radio, the voice of it all. It was my connection to metropolitan America, if you will.…

— George Will

America overflows with specious "victims" demanding redress for spurious grievances. However, one genuinely oppressed minority is getting overdue relief. Beginning with spring…

— George Will

(Barry) Bonds' records must remain part of baseball's history. His hits happened. Erase them and there will be discrepancies in baseball's bookkeeping…

— George Will