American Quote by Amy Bloom

Baseball is all about stories, many of which are even true.

— George Vecsey

I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things.

— Vin Scully

Baseball is the slow creation of something beautiful. It is the almost boringly paced accumulation of what seems slight or incidental into an opera…

— Joshua Ferris

Baseball is part of America's plot, part of America's mysterious, underlying design-the plot in which we all conspire and collude, the plot of the…

— Albert Allen Bartlett

My favorite part of any baseball book - and I read a lot of them - is the anecdotes. I believe there is a…

— Jonathan Weeks

I've been wanting to do a book about baseball for the longest time, and nobody will let me do it. It's the one thing…

— Bill Bryson

Baseball has a special place in our hearts. It is the game that shows us as we would like to be.

— Mary McGrory

There's certainly a large literature around baseball in the U.S.

— Chad Harbach

For every man with a baseball story - a memory of a moment at the plate or in the field - there is a…

— Mariah Nelson

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

— Walt Whitman

Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished.

— Jim Sensenbrenner

Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on…

— Edward Abbey