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Pro-rated at 500 at-bats a year that means that for two years out of the fourteen I played, I never even touched the ball.
Author: Norm Cash, on his 1,081 strikeouts
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No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.
Author: Paul Gallico
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Don’t tell me about the world. Not today. It’s springtime and they’re knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball.
Author: Pete Hamill
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Baseball is too much of a sport to be called a business, and too much of a business to be called a sport.
Author: Philip Wrigley
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[L]ike those special afternoons in summer when you go to Yankee Stadium at two o’clock in the afternoon for an eight o’clock game. It’s so big, so empty and so silent that you can almost hear the sounds that aren’t there.
Author: Ray Miller
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Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.
Author: Red Smith
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Baseball is a game dominated by vital ghosts; it’s a fraternity, like no other we have of the active and the no longer so, the living and the dead.
Author: Richard Gilman
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Life will always throw you curves, just keep fouling them off… the right pitch will come, but when it does, be prepared to run the bases.
Author: Rick Maksian
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The designated hitter rule is like letting someone else take Wilt Chamberlain’s free throws.
Author: Rick Wise, 1974
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England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example.
Author: Robert Benchley
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Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
Author: Robert Frost
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Baseball fans are junkies, and their heroin is the statistic.
Author: Robert S. Wieder
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Putting lights in Wrigley Field is like putting aluminum siding on the Sistine Chapel.
Author: Roger Simon, 1988
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People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
Author: Rogers Hornsby
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You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.
Author: Roy Campanella
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I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.
Author: Sandy Koufax
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Baseball is an allegorical play about America, a poetic, complex, and subtle play of courage, fear, good luck, mistakes, patience about fate, and sober self-esteem.
Author: Saul Steinberg
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I don’t love baseball. I don’t love most of today’s players. I don’t love the owners. I do love, however, the baseball that is in the heads of baseball fans. I love the dreams of glory of 10-year-olds, the reminiscences of 70-year-olds. The greatest baseball arena is in our heads, what we bring to the games, to the telecasts, to reading newspaper reports.
Author: Stan Isaacs, ‘Diamond-Studded Memories,’ Newsday, 9 April 1990
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To a pitcher, a base hit is the perfect example of negative feedback.
Author: Steve Hovley, 1969
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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.
Author: ‘The Villains in Blue,’ Time magazine, 25 August 1961
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