American Quote by Henry Chadwick

Baseball is our national game.

— Calvin Coolidge

Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished.

— Jim Sensenbrenner

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

— Harrison Ford

Baseball grew rapidly in favor; the field was ripe. America needed a live outdoor sport, and this game exactly suited the national temperament. It…

— John Montgomery Ward

Baseball was my first sport. I wish I would have stayed with it.

— Reggie Bush

Baseball was a metaphor for America, both here and in terms of how it was understood by the rest of the world.

— Harrison Ford

Baseball is a game of tradition. It lives, in large measure, on its past.

— Thomas Hauser

Baseball wasn't necessarily my first sport in terms of liking it. I'd never played baseball or softball growing up.

— Kylie Bunbury

In this country, since footballs made from pigs' bladders were whacked into goals without nets, we've played on full-size pitches. Whatever our age.

— Gary Lineker

For someone whose roots in America were strong but only inches deep, and who had no experience, such as a Catholic child might, of…

— Philip Roth

I played baseball up until my freshman year of high school. That was my main sport. I played third base.

— Macklemore

Baseball is what we were, football is what we have become.

— Mary McGrory