Baseball Quote by W.P. Kinsella

America has been erased like a blackboard, only to be rebuilt and then erased again. But baseball has marked time while America has rolled…

— W. P. Kinsella

The one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a…

— James Earl Jones

“America is a country in which the velocity of history is especially great, in which each succeeding decade wipes it's immediate predecessor out, a…

— George Bailey

“I would understand later that baseball was what truly made him an American: the sports pages were more crucial documents than the Constitution.”

— Pete Hamill

Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers.

— Donald Hall

Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished.

— Jim Sensenbrenner

Baseball is continuous, like nothing else among American things, an endless game of repeated summers, joining the long generations of all the fathers and…

— Donald Hall

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

— Harrison Ford

“There are only three things that America will be remembered for 2000 years from now when they study this civilization: The Constitution, Jazz music,…

— Gerald Early

“America's favorite pastime is not baseball but giving unasked-for advice to new parents.”

— Harvey Karp M.D

“History has a way of repeating itself, but it's up to us to break the cycle.”

— Kirby Larson

Baseball is a habit. The slowly rising crescendo of each game, the rhythm of the long season--these are the essentials and they are remarkably…

— George Will