American Quote by Chad Harbach

One of the beautiful things about baseball is the history.

— Jim Abbott

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

For many years, even after Jackie Robinson, baseball was so segregated, really. You just didn't expect us to have a chance to do anything.…

— Hank Aaron

You have to remember that baseball really was the American pastime in the Forties, not football, basketball or any other sport.

— Harrison Ford

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

— George Will

Baseball is part of our culture. It's part of us.

— Fernando Tatis Jr

Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers.

— Donald Hall

I don't know a lot about politics, but I know a lot about baseball.

— Richard M. Nixon

“I would understand later that baseball was what truly made him an American: the sports pages were more crucial documents than the Constitution.”

— Pete Hamill

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

— Chad Harbach

It baseball is an American institution and more lasting than some marriages, war, Supreme Court decisions and even major depressions

— Art Rust, Jr

Baseball was a metaphor for America, both here and in terms of how it was understood by the rest of the world.

— Harrison Ford