Allergic Quote by Branch Rickey

Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to…

— Branch Rickey

Baseball has always been slow to accept change. Only through dire pressure can any radical change be accomplished. The move of the Giants and…

— Ford Frick

Everybody thinks of baseball as a sacred cow. When you have the nerve to challenge it, people look down their noses at you. There…

— Curt Flood

I hope that the biggest change in the game is that people are saying that Major League Baseball owns the next generation. That is…

— Rob Manfred

I think if the players are trying to market themselves in the sense they want to wear cool cleats or cool shoes and this…

— Trea Turner

There's always, I guess, a philosophy that if you come in, you want to change all the parts, you want to change everything over.…

— Pat Gillick

MLB has become overly active, actively involved in the game, the on-the-field game. They're trying to run the game the way they want to…

— Paul Quantrill

Baseball has changed dramatically since I began my tenure with the Yankees.

— Joe Torre

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

— Babe Ruth

Before, baseball was something to do to get ready for the hockey season. Now, people look to play baseball, period. It's something you stick…

— Jason Bay

Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all…

— Michael Lewis

The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for…

— Ty Cobb