America Quote by Monte Irvin

Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.

— Herbert Hoover

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.

— Anonymous

Baseball has always been slow to accept change. Only through dire pressure can any radical change be accomplished. The move of the Giants and…

— Ford Frick

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

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

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 skilled game. It's America's game - it, and high taxes.

— Will Rogers

You have to remember that baseball really was the American pastime in the Forties, not football, basketball or any other sport.

— Harrison Ford

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

Baseball has all the money.

— Brett Hull

Baseball does have some slack here. When they were losing $20 million a year in Montreal, there was some pressure to get rid of…

— Andrew Zimbalist

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

— George Will