Around Quote by Billy Herman

Baseball was the darling of all sports back then.

— Marion Motley

I felt like the world of baseball in 1919 was much closer to what A-ball would be now - guys riding buses, there's no…

— D. B. Sweeney

For a long time, I'd been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs…

— Bill Bryson

One of my heroes growing up was Jackie Robinson. My mom, an ardent baseball fan from whom I got my love of the game,…

— Jared Polis

I was a baseball fan, at any rate.

— Hillary Clinton

Baseball was socially relevant, and so was my rebellion against it.

— Curt Flood

The interesting thing is that it seems like George W. Bush would have been happy being the president of anything. He could have been…

— Eddie Vedder

My relatives have always taken their baseball seriously, and proudly rooted for the Yankees when they beat the boys from Brooklyn in six remarkable…

— Ed Henry

[My favorite decade] probably the '60s, because there were hardly any rules and heroin hadn't shown up, so people hadn't started dying. It was…

— Lemmy Kilmister

I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.

— Hunter S. Thompson

People I look to: again, Hank Aaron, man you challenged the status quo and the records of the game. Monumental feats in an era…

— Dave Winfield

I wasn't the guy running out to the Viper Room or comedy clubs until three in the morning. I was the guy running back…

— Ralph Macchio