Babe Quote by Bill Bryson

No one hit home runs the way Babe (Ruth) did. They were something special. They were like homing pigeons. The ball would leave the…

— Lefty Gomez

The home run became glorified with Babe Ruth. Starting with him, batters have been thinking in terms of how far they could hit the…

— Rogers Hornsby

I never realized that batting a little ball around could cause so much commotion. I now know how (Charles) Lindbergh must have felt when…

— Stan Musial

Babe Ruth was the home-run king of his time, but also the strikeout king.

— Dan Millman

I hadn't realized quite how extraordinary Charles Lindbergh's achievement was in flying the Atlantic alone. He had never flown over open water before, but…

— Bill Bryson

It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had not hit those sixty-one home runs.

— Roger Maris

Now they talk on the radio about the record set by (Babe) Ruth, and (Joe) DiMaggio and Henry Aaron. But they rarely mention mine.…

— Roger Maris

Babe Ruth was great. I'm just lucky.

— Reggie Jackson

There is nothing like Ruth ever existed in this game of baseball. I remember we were playing the White Sox in Boston in 1919,…

— Waite Hoyt

“Even with the benefit of steroids most modern players still couldn't hit as many home runs as Babe Ruth hit on hotdogs.”

— Bill Bryson

It was in 1942 and I flew from St. Louis to Mexico City. I had just gotten married and we were on our honeymoon.…

— Monte Irvin

Baseball was the darling of all sports back then.

— Marion Motley