Ballparks Quote by Richie Ashburn

“There was a baseball game on but it didn't look real. It was guys in uniforms playing games on a deep green field. They…

— Walter Dean Myers

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

I remember as a kid going to Peoria for the Junior Olympics or something. It was not a major-league stadium with three tiers of…

— Marcus Semien

The place was always cold, and I got the feeling that the fans would have enjoyed baseball more if it had been played with…

— Andre Dawson

“Marlins Park was a creature all its own, the brainchild of either a surrealist artist or a 15-year-old kid who set out to build…

— Ben Blatt and Eric Brewster

There was a beauty here bigger than the hurtling beauty of basketball, a beauty refined from country pastures, a game of solitariness, of waiting,…

— John Updike

“Molly wondered if these boys really loved baseball, the sound and smell of it, the rhythm of it, the leather and wood, the grass…

— Mick Cochrane

“Alex stood near Tiger Stadium. It was closed down now and abandoned, a ghost of itself. Alex loved baseball and lamented the new stadiums…

— Gary Hardwick

Baseball is a pretty sight and a nice experience, win or lose, particularly if it is watched in a nice park.

— Daniel Okrent

Baseball is my escape. The sights, the sounds, the way the park smells. There is truly no place I would rather be than at…

— Alyssa Milano

Baseball is a soap opera that plays out day after day, one that a lot of elderly women watch until the characters and the…

— Bob Hope