Baseball Quote by Branch Rickey

Humanity is the keystone that holds nations and men together. When that collapses, the whole structure crumbles. This is as true of baseball teams…

— Connie Mack

I think one of the most difficult things for anyone who's played baseball is to accept the fact that maybe the players today are…

— Ralph Kiner

There are certainly times when baseball is much more than bread and circus, times when baseball resonates deeply and meaningfully with many, many people,…

— Theo Epstein

Baseball is a game of tradition. It lives, in large measure, on its past.

— Thomas Hauser

People tend to take sides in these discussions. They feel obligated to say baseball is in catastrophic circumstance or no problem at all. I…

— Andrew Zimbalist

The great thing about baseball is the causality is easy to determine and it always falls on the shoulders of one person. So there…

— Michael Mandelbaum

The fact that guys adjusted really quickly to the big leagues, developed really quickly, faced adversity under the brightest spotlights, played great baseball, overcame…

— Theo Epstein

Baseball is a game of failure. There are plenty of opportunities to be down, or to feel sorry for yourself, or to be upset…

— Mark Teixeira

I think I understand why baseball players today are a little standoffish, because the world has changed. You don't know who's trying to take…

— Billy Williams

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

— George Will

Baseball's time is seamless and invisible, a bubble within which players move at exactly the same pace and rhythms as all their predecessors. This…

— Roger Angell

The silliest and most tendentious of baseball writing tries to wrest profundity from the spectacle of grown men hitting a ball with a stick…

— Stephen Jay Gould