Baseball Quote by John Thorn

Humanity is the keystone that holds nations and men together. When that collapses, the whole structure crumbles. This is as true of baseball teams…

— Connie Mack

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

Baseball was the darling of all sports back then.

— Marion Motley

Without Cooperstown, you don't have baseball: Baseball is history.

— Brian Kilmeade

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

The fact that guys adjusted really quickly to the big leagues, developed really quickly, faced adversity under the brightest spotlights, played great baseball, overcame…

— Theo Epstein

Baseball is probably the world's best documented sport.

— Ford Frick

“Though we often throw around the idea, there really is no sacred Church of Baseball-there are only the people who built it and the…

— Stacey May Fowles

Baseball's time is seamless and invisible, a bubble within which players move at exactly the same pace and rhythms as all their predecessors. This…

— Roger Angell

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

If you watch the history of baseball, teams come back, and sometimes they could have come back, but they give in or give up.

— Tony La Russa

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

— George Will