Baseball Quote by David Grann

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

— Harrison Ford

Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle.

— George Carlin

Baseball grew rapidly in favor; the field was ripe. America needed a live outdoor sport, and this game exactly suited the national temperament. It…

— John Montgomery Ward

For someone whose roots in America were strong but only inches deep, and who had no experience, such as a Catholic child might, of…

— Philip Roth

The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

— Bernard Malamud

Baseball is really two sports -- the summer game and the autumn game. One is the leisurely pastime of our national mythology. The other…

— Thomas Boswell

Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business…

— Ernie Harwell

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

— Harrison Ford

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

— Thomas Hauser

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

Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming…

— Mark Twain

Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.

— Michael Lewis