Balls Quote by Stan Musial

For a long time, I'd been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs…

— Bill Bryson

When I stepped into the box, I felt the at-bat belonged to me. Everybody else was there for my convenience. The pitcher was there…

— Reggie Jackson

Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man…

— Dick Gregory

I remember one time going out to the mound to talk with Bob Gibson. He told me to get back behind the batter; that…

— Tim McCarver

All the publicity, the attention, the interviews, the photographs, were too much for me (after throwing his second no-hitter in 1938).

— Johnny Vander Meer

He (Babe Ruth) was very brave at the plate. You rarely saw him fall away from a pitch. He stayed right in there. No…

— Casey Stengel

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 always tried to learn about the hitters. Anytime someone got a hit off me, I made a mental note of the pitch. He'd…

— Christy Mathewson

Joe DiMaggio batting sometimes gave the impression, the suggestion that the old rules and dimensions of baseball no longer applied to him, and that…

— Donald Hall

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out…

— Babe Ruth

In the old days, you know, they didn't have batting cages. And in most ball parks, they only had one runway to the dugout.

— Pete Rose

The no-hitter was the highlight of my career. The specialness of it, I didn't know how lasting it would be when it happened. Everywhere…

— Jim Abbott