Athens Quote by George Will

The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game.

— Anonymous

Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.

— Edward Abbey

Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

Baseball, like some other sports, poses as a sacred institution dedicated to the public good, but it is actually a big, selfish business with…

— Jackie Robinson

Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community.

— George Will

The game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It furnishes amusement…

— William Howard Taft

Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.

— Michael Lewis

Everybody loves baseball regardless of what they think about politics. That's the cool thing. You see all of the politicians and the military interaction.…

— Drew Storen

It baseball is an American institution and more lasting than some marriages, war, Supreme Court decisions and even major depressions

— Art Rust, Jr

“The beauty of baseball is multidimensional, appealing to the eye and the mind. There is beauty, for instance, in its geometry, the space between…

— Tom Verducci

Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics. You "take in" a baseball game, something odd to say…

— Charles Krauthammer

Baseball is not a conventional industry. It belongs neither to the players nor management, but to all of us. It is our national pastime,…

— John Thorn