Babe ruth Quote by Hank Aaron

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

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

You know, when you can play with the greatest players of that particular era, you look forward to going to the ballpark. I mean,…

— Johnny Bench

You have to remember that baseball really was the American pastime in the Forties, not football, basketball or any other sport.

— Harrison Ford

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

Every kid in America dreams of playing in the big leagues and they don't, just because. It's not because they blew out their knee.…

— Marc Blucas

Baseball was the darling of all sports back then.

— Marion Motley

Since 1869, baseball has been doing pretty well.

— Pete Rose

Although the world proved not yet ready for the brotherhood of baseball, that would be only a matter of time, baseball magnates believed.

— John Thorn

Baseball has always been slow to accept change. Only through dire pressure can any radical change be accomplished. The move of the Giants and…

— Ford Frick

There was nothing to keep him (Cal Ripken, Jr.) from being a star in the Major Leagues. That was inevitable.

— Earl Weaver

“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