That's the true harbinger of spring, not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of a bat on a ball.
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'Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.'
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Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.
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After a month or so in St. Louis, we were looking around desperately for a way to draw a few people into the ball park, it being perfectly clear by that time that the ball club wasn't going to do it unaided.
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I have discovered, in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.
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This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
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I have discovered in twenty years of moving around a ball park, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.
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It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball's wounds are self-inflicted.
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Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width.
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The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
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I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think it is the only thing.
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