Annual Quote by Jane Leavy

The modern era of Cape Cod baseball dawned in 1963 when the league became a showcase for the collegiate elite.

— Jane Leavy

By the 1880s, baseball was entrenched in the Cape's sandy soil. Semipro teams, commonplace before World War I, were organized into the first Cape…

— Jane Leavy

Before, baseball was something to do to get ready for the hockey season. Now, people look to play baseball, period. It's something you stick…

— Jason Bay

Baseball was the darling of all sports back then.

— Marion Motley

Baseball in the Navy always was much more fun than it had been in the major leagues.

— Bob Feller

Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle.

— George Carlin

I came up in 1941 and I played against men who played in the 1930s. I stayed until 1963 playing against men who will…

— Stan Musial

I came of baseball age (isn't it always around first grade?) in the last sputtering years of the A's Philadelphia tenancy. I probably plighted…

— Richard Corliss

When did it - When did it become okay for someone to hit home runs and forget how to play the rest of the…

— Ryne Sandberg

Although baseball actually began as a game played largely by urban toughs, its image was soon reconstructed to mirror the country's pastoral myth.

— David Grann

The great thing about baseball is when you're done, you'll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask me about 1989, I'll…

— Sparky Anderson

There's a lot more future in hamburgers than in baseball.

— Ray Kroc