Ball Quote by Pete Rose

Ball parks are smaller and baseballs are livelier. They've practically got pitchers wearing straitjackets. Bah! They still allow the knuckleball, and that is three…

— Ed Walsh

If anyone stays away (after the 1981 strike), my response is this - those people had no right to ever come to the park,…

— George Brett

“The ballpark is the star. In the age of Tris Speaker and Babe Ruth, the era of Jimmie Foxx and Ted Williams, through the…

— Anonymous

I wonder why there is a designated hitter in baseball after all these years? As an experiment, it seemed like a swell enough idea,…

— Jay Mohr

The great hitters use the whole field, and that's a goal of mine.

— Mookie Betts

I never realized that batting a little ball around could cause so much commotion. I now know how (Charles) Lindbergh must have felt when…

— Stan Musial

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

That was one of the most comfortable things about leaving baseball was to leave the environment. It's very much like a rock star existence…

— Mike Schmidt

When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team's dugout and…

— Bob Uecker

I knew that the Mets had never had a no-hitter. I never had one. This is very special. I knew this means a lot…

— Johan Santana

To be able to play baseball for those nine innings in front of a major league crowd is a special privilege.

— Mark Teixeira

I've always made the case that a baseball locker room is simply an extension of society. Every type of person you have in your…

— Gabe Kapler