Backyards Quote by Donald Hall

Baseball always gets credit for the foundational part of masculinity - the father thing. The eternal game of backyard catch, 'Field of Dreams', the…

— J. R. Moehringer

“Baseball, more than any other sport, has a magical way of connecting fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, grandparents and grandchildren and ancestors back…

— Alan Gratz

Baseball is sunshine, green grass, fathers and sons, our rural past.

— Albert Theodore Powers

Baseball represents family. It represents my childhood.

— Alyssa Milano

Baseball is a boy's game that makes grown men cry.

— Bill Veeck

“There is something special about baseball that goes far deeper than being a game. It is the father-son relationship that is built, the life…

— John Passaro

Football is multigenerational. It used to be about fathers taking their sons. Now we're taking our daughters, too.

— Steve Tisch

The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to…

— Michael Lewis

Family is everything. It is even more important than baseball.

— Luis Tiant

My little brothers loved baseball. I'm not as big on that as basketball or football, but I understand the game.

— Anonymous

My dad and all my family were into baseball. His brothers, my mom's brothers, my mom's father. Baseball was just always a part of…

— Mark Teixeira

Baseball life is a tough life on the family.

— Nolan Ryan