Athletics Quote by George Vecsey

Baseball is a soap opera that plays out day after day, one that a lot of elderly women watch until the characters and the…

— Bob Hope

We in the Negro leagues felt like we were contributing something to baseball, too, when we were playing. We played with a round ball,…

— Buck Leonard

When my grandfather was a journalist for the Detroit Tigers, he dressed the part. I mention it always to our local media: sport coat,…

— Erik Spoelstra

When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.

— Ty Cobb

There are many wonderful things about 80s trends. The clothes were emulating what was going on in society at the time, women were elbowing…

— Dawn O'Porter

Night baseball isn't an aberration. What's an aberration is a team that hasn't won a World Series since 1908. They tend to think of…

— George Will

Some of the best memories of my career have been with 'Sunday Night Baseball' and I will miss my time with our amazing crew,…

— Jessica Mendoza

I think baseball represents something closer to our experience. There's no clock in baseball; it's not over until it's over. It's like life in…

— Bennett Miller

“It wasn’t until 1959 that the Red Sox finally joined the rest of the major leagues and brought up a black player from the…

— Ben Bradlee Jr

People forget that scenes and fashion trends changed very rapidly during the '80s. We went from glam rock to punk, to new romantic, to…

— Paul Young

For many years, even after Jackie Robinson, baseball was so segregated, really. You just didn't expect us to have a chance to do anything.…

— Hank Aaron

I think for me it was always being an everyday player in the Major Leagues and trying to see how you can improve from…

— Marcus Semien