Ford Frick Quotes

Why shouldn't he break Ruth's record? He's got more power than Stalin.

Cape Cod baseball dates back to the time of the Civil War. A poster at the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown touts a round-trip train ride from Hyannis to Sandwich on July 4, 1885 - the occasion of the 14th annual baseball game between Sandwich and Barnstable.

In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.

I think that baseball as a whole, I am a huge romantic when it comes to the history and the stats and the numbers the stories behind it, so I would consider myself a pretty big fan.

Of course, I believe that Mike Piazza is probably the greatest offensive catcher in the history of baseball, only got over 50%. Johnny Bench is the best catcher in the history of baseball, but Piazza has all the record for catchers as far as offensively.

In baseball 30 days is an eternity.

Data!data!data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay.

Of course, before the internet people found records, too. You can still do it. It's just that people like to make the least amount of effort as possible.

I know for a stretch, at least nine years, I was one of the best lead-off hitters in baseball

Baseball is America's pastime, and that record is absolutely huge in the States.

What's an archive, son? Is that anything like a closet?

The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History .

Pete Rose has three thousand hits and three thousand fourteen overall.

Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches.

We live in a moment in history in which our privacy may not be important.

I love to play this game of baseball. I love putting on the uniform.

The day I got a hit off (Sandy) Koufax was when he knew it was all over.

Hello again, everybody... It's a bee-yoo-tiful day for baseball.

Baseball isn't statistics, it's Joe DiMaggio rounding second base.

There are 20,000 million books I could have to read, but I can pick the ones and know that I'm learning something that I didn't know before. That's the glory of writing. It's not even so much the writing, it's what you learn - especially history - because so much of it is research.

You're only as smart as your ERA.

Our mission is to organize the world's information. Clearly, the more information we have when we do a search, the better it's going to work.

Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived.

He's in a rut. Gehringer goes two for five on opening day and stays that way all season.

I see the world as a knowledge hardware story, and every day I'm just walking through the aisles.