Baseball Quote by Pete Hamill

“We were separated by years, tastes in music, food, clothes, and politics, but we delighted in baseball.”

— Chris Fabry

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

— Chad Harbach

“I had a great deal of valuable knowledge - about genetics, computers, aikido, karate, hardware, chess, wine, cocktails, dancings, sexual positions, social protocols, and…

— Graeme Simsion

“In high school I wrote an essay on baseball and my teacher told me I had to rewrite it on a more serious topic.…

— Tucker Elliot

For someone whose roots in America were strong but only inches deep, and who had no experience, such as a Catholic child might, of…

— Philip Roth

There's certainly a large literature around baseball in the U.S.

— Chad Harbach

Baseball is something more than a game to an American boy; it is his training field for life’s work. Destroy his faith in its…

— Kenesaw Mountain Landis

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

— Anonymous

“Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics.”

— Charles Krauthammer

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

— Harrison Ford

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

— George Will

“baseball should be played for the love of the game and not the almighty dollar. I”

— Lori Wilde