Amsterdam Quote by Mark McGwire

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

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 is a game where you are always waiting, and then when something happens it's like turning a kaleidoscope when you were a kid.

— Frederick Busch

I was a baseball fan myself, I wanted to play baseball.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

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

There are surprisingly few real students of the game in baseball; partly because everybody, my eighty-three year old grandmother included, thinks they learned all…

— Alvin Dark

Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers.

— Donald Hall

Baseball was a metaphor for America, both here and in terms of how it was understood by the rest of the world.

— Harrison Ford

Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.

— Vin Scully

Baseball's a funny game; people mature at different times.

— Corey Seager

I had a great time with baseball growing up. I was lucky to grow up with it and to learn.

— Nick Johnson