Baseball Quote by Mina Kimes

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

While American ballplayers from Mickey Mantle to David Ortiz have flipped their bats, the act is still perceived as a great offense here -…

— Mina Kimes

Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.

— Michael Lewis

Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on…

— Edward Abbey

Baseball is more like a novel than a war. It is like an ongoing, hundred-year work of art, peopled with thousands of characters, full…

— Luke Salisbury

Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall…

— Paul Auster

Baseball is meant to be fun, and not all the solemn money-men in fur-collared greatcoats, not all the scruffy media cameramen and sour-faced reporters…

— John Updike

Baseball is part of our culture. It's part of us.

— Fernando Tatis Jr

Everybody thinks of baseball as a sacred cow. When you have the nerve to challenge it, people look down their noses at you. There…

— Curt Flood

More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.

— Thomas Boswell

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

— George Will

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