Baseball Quote by Lou Gehrig

Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.

— Branch Rickey

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 perception is that baseball's players' union is protecting players to use steroids and other illegal performance-enhancing drugs.

— Jim Bunning

Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

It's not in baseball's interest or the players' interest to be taking this stance. It's the people's game.

— Fay Vincent

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

American history and the history of baseball are bound up together: our racial politics can be described and traced through it.

— Chad Harbach

I don't think discrimination should be anywhere.

— Callum Hudson-Odoi

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

“These studies are about a lot more than foul calls and strikeouts. They’re about the nature of racism today: subtle, pervasive, persistent. And they…

— Jeremy A. Smith

Any time there's racism somewhere in sports, we should get it out of there because sports is a place where everything's supposed to be…

— Ice Cube

Discrimination and prejudice of any kind have no place in sports or in our society.

— Jerry Reinsdorf