Activity Quote by John Montgomery Ward

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

— Harrison Ford

Indeed, the maligned American pastime of baseball may be by-far the greatest and best sport by one criterion, when it comes to emulating and…

— David Brin

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

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

— Jim Sensenbrenner

Baseball is really two sports -- the summer game and the autumn game. One is the leisurely pastime of our national mythology. The other…

— Thomas Boswell

More so than any other major American sport, baseball has the most diversity of culture and personality, and is the least marketable. Why? It…

— Trevor Bauer

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 just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business…

— Ernie Harwell

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do…

— Jacques Barzun

Baseball has a special place in our hearts. It is the game that shows us as we would like to be.

— Mary McGrory

Baseball is just a game, as simple as a ball and bat, yet as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a…

— Ernie Harwell

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

— George Will