Abundance Quote by Ford Frick

Baseball has changed dramatically since I began my tenure with the Yankees.

— Joe Torre

Baseball people are generally allergic to new ideas; it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms, and it is the hardest…

— Branch Rickey

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

— Babe Ruth

The one thing I always said to myself was that when baseball started to feel more like a job, it would be time to…

— Derek Jeter

Baseball has done more to move America in the right direction than all of the professional patriots with all their cheap words.

— Monte Irvin

Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to…

— Branch Rickey

Probably the most dramatic change in pitching I've observed in my years in baseball has been the disappearance of the knockdown or brushback pitch.…

— Frank Robinson

I hope that the biggest change in the game is that people are saying that Major League Baseball owns the next generation. That is…

— Rob Manfred

There's always, I guess, a philosophy that if you come in, you want to change all the parts, you want to change everything over.…

— Pat Gillick

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

But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave…

— John Thorn

Baseball is a diversion. It is therapy. It takes peoples minds off of everything that has happened, if just for a while.

— George Pataki