Allow Quote by Ed Walsh

In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted.

— Jackie Robinson

“The ballpark is the star. In the age of Tris Speaker and Babe Ruth, the era of Jimmie Foxx and Ted Williams, through the…

— Anonymous

Like some cult religion that barely survives, there has always been at least one but rarely more than five or six devotees throwing the…

— Ron Luciano

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

In the old days, you know, they didn't have batting cages. And in most ball parks, they only had one runway to the dugout.

— Pete Rose

When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove. Vance Law Baseball was…

— Bob Lemon

I felt like the world of baseball in 1919 was much closer to what A-ball would be now - guys riding buses, there's no…

— D. B. Sweeney

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

— Thomas Hauser

After a month or so in St. Louis, we were looking around desperately for a way to draw a few people into the ball…

— Bill Veeck

Baseball is a lot like the ivy-covered wall of Wrigley Field--it gives off a great appearance, but when you run into it, you discover…

— Hank Aaron

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

Baseball isn't a business; it's more like a disease.

— Walter O'Malley