And love Quote by Sinclair Lewis

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

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

We in the Negro leagues felt like we were contributing something to baseball, too, when we were playing. We played with a round ball,…

— Buck Leonard

Baseball grew rapidly in favor; the field was ripe. America needed a live outdoor sport, and this game exactly suited the national temperament. It…

— John Montgomery Ward

Baseball is a tongue-tied kid from Georgia growing up to be an announcer and praising the Lord for showing him the way to Cooperstown.…

— Ernie Harwell

Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing…

— Ernie Harwell

Baseball is a game of tradition. It lives, in large measure, on its past.

— Thomas Hauser

He was our symbol of baseball at a time when the game meant something to us that perhaps it no longer does.

— Bob Costas

“Baseball, more than any other sport, has a magical way of connecting fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, grandparents and grandchildren and ancestors back…

— Alan Gratz

Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming…

— Mark Twain

The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to…

— Michael Lewis

My little brothers loved baseball. I'm not as big on that as basketball or football, but I understand the game.

— Anonymous