"Fans don't boo nobodies." -- Reggie Jackson "The strongest thing baseball has going for it today is yesterdays." -- Lawrence Ritter "Baseball is like a poker game, nobody wants to quit when [they're] losing: nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead."  -- Jackie Robinson The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination. -- Tommy Lasorda Show me a guy who’s afraid to look bad, and I’ll show you a guy you can beat every time. -- Lou Brock

Ken Griffey, jr

"[Baseball is] designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains comes, it stops, and leaves you to face the fall alone."  -- A. Bartlett Giamatti, Baseball Commissioner (1989). Banned Pete Rose from baseball.          

"Ideally, the umpire should combine the integrity of a Supreme Court judge, the physical agility of an acrobat, the endurance of Job and the imperturbability of Buddha."   -- Time Magazine, 8/25/61                        

I loved the game. I'd have played for food money. I'd have played for free and worked for food. It was the game, the parks, the smells, the sounds. Have you ever held a bat or a baseball to your face? The varnish, the leather. And it was the crowd, the excitement of them rising as one when the ball was hit deep. The sound was like a chorus. Then there was the chug-a-lug of the tin lizzies in the parking lots, and the hotels with their brass spittoons in the lobbies and brass beds in the rooms. It makes me tingle all over like a kid on his way to his first double-header, just to talk about it.  -- Shoeless Joe Jackson, Field of Dreams                        

The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and that could be again. Oh people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come. -- James Earl Jones as Terence Mann, in Field of Dreams     

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives. -- Jackie Robinson

All I want out of life, is that when I walk down the street folks will say, "There goes the greatest hitter that ever lived." -- Ted Williams

"They can holler at the uniform all they want, but when they holler at the man wearing the uniform, they're in trouble." -- Joe Brinkman,  Umpire  "I knew it would ruin my arm, but one year of 25-7 is worth five of 15-15." -- Steve Stone "I'm throwing twice as hard as I ever did. It's just not getting there as fast." -- Lefty Gomez All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill." -- Babe Ruth "Love America and hate baseball? Hate America and love baseball? Neither is possible, except in the abstract."  -- John Krich Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you.  -- Satchel Paige I never thought home runs were all that exciting. I still think the triple is the most exciting thing in baseball. To me, a triple is like a guy taking the ball on his 1-yard line and running 99 yards for a touchdown. -- Hank Aaron                   I used to love to come to the ballpark. Now I hate it. Every day becomes a little tougher because of all this. Writers, tape recorders, microphones, cameras, questions and more questions. Roger Maris lost his hair the season he hit sixty-one. I still have all my hair, but when it's over, I'm going home to Mobile and fish for a long time. -- Hank Aaron as he closed in on Babe Ruth's career home run record

Pedro Martinez

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