America Quote by Fred Willard

My relatives have always taken their baseball seriously, and proudly rooted for the Yankees when they beat the boys from Brooklyn in six remarkable…

— Ed Henry

Everyone I knew was a Red Sox fan. Living up there in 1967 - the Impossible Dream season - that moment was incredibly compelling.…

— Bill de Blasio

The best team I ever saw, and I really mean this, was the '61 Yankees.

— Mickey Mantle

As a player, to me the Dodgers were the Yankees of the National League because... you either loved them or you hated them.

— Joe Torre

It's great to have a small place in their history, all that the Yankees mean and everything, that's awesome.

— Aaron Boone

Going through college a Red Sox fan and knowing the history behind everything that was going on back in the '80s and finally getting…

— Tim Wakefield

I never got to see the '27 Yankees. Everyone says that was the greatest team ever. But I think it would've been a great…

— Mickey Mantle

Yankee Stadium, and the Yankees are so famous for Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, all of those guys.

— Bert Campaneris

I had an incredible experience living in New York, playing for the Yankees, to go through all of the things I did, including the…

— Jim Abbott

It was a death struggle every day being a Yankee you either won or you lost. There was no second place. Half of us…

— Jerry Coleman

I guess what really made me a Dodgers fan from the beginning was that the team had Jackie Robinson, the first 'Negro' in the…

— Cheech Marin

Through the mid-80s I watched my team struggle, but in 1988 the A's made it to the Series. I was at Game 5 that…

— Ryan Fleck