Baseball Quote by Johnny Vander Meer

Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all…

— Michael Lewis

When we build a public library, we don't have to pay to get in, but when we build a stadium, we have to pay…

— Jesse Ventura

Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.

— Peter Ueberroth

Our economics are not baseball's economics. Our game is not baseball's game. Our owners are not baseball's owners, with one or two exceptions. Our…

— Gary Bettman

Owners want to make their team a winner so they can get more fans in the stands, and that's why they go after the…

— Moses Malone

I managed 26 years and found out when I retired I didn't own the game. I thought I owned it when I was managing…

— Sparky Anderson

And historically the owners have used loyalty to a team or a city to hold players as opposed to always paying their worth.

— Lynn Swann

Baseball, like some other sports, poses as a sacred institution dedicated to the public good, but it is actually a big, selfish business with…

— Jackie Robinson

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business.

— Willie Mays

Baseball is not a conventional industry. It belongs neither to the players nor management, but to all of us. It is our national pastime,…

— John Thorn

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

— Thomas Hauser

The fellow who can pay only twenty-five cents to see a ball game always will be just as welcome at Comiskey Park as the…

— Charles Comiskey