Scott Rogowsky Quotes

I've been a baseball fan in the early part of my life, so through the '70s and the '80s, I was a huge fan. I actually followed the Dodgers back then, back in the Kirk Gibson years, Steve Garvey.

One of the walls of my bedroom was a collage of about 15 years of baseball photos. I would cut out the baseball pictures from every issue and I had this huge montage of thousands of pictures.

There's a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus Wagner hit a triple in Pittsburgh 46 years ago. That's baseball.

I came of baseball age (isn't it always around first grade?) in the last sputtering years of the A's Philadelphia tenancy. I probably plighted my fated troth in 1949, when the A's fluked into a winning season and introduced a pintsize southpaw named Bobby Shantz.

I love baseball and love the Indians and all the teams here.

What's the best baseball name of all time? Is it Champ Summers? Clyde Kluttz? Razor Shines? Scipio Spinks? Sibby Sisti? Creepy Crespi? Before you answer, consider that Coco Crisp is not even the game's top Coco, an honor retired by Coco Laboy.

I know a little bit about a great many things and not enough about any one to make a living in these times.

You know, baseball's not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually.

My first interest in baseball is the welfare of baseball itself. My second is the Cincinnati Reds, and my third is Warren Giles.

I liked George Weiss when he was with the Yankees. He loved the Old Timers' Day. He loved it. And he invited all these people to come, all these players to come.

I love Boston. I love Fenway Park. I love Red Sox history. But in no way am I a Red Sox fan.

I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game.

I love my baseball, and I love my Phillies.

There's certainly a large literature around baseball in the U.S.

I have that special sort of novelist body of knowledge which is extraordinarily wide and very, very shallow. So I can usually answer the questions on 'Jeopardy,' but never the bonus question.

I always worry that I'm a dilettante: I know something about lots of things but don't have exhaustive knowledge of much.

I love the MLB app, because I'm a pretty obsessed baseball fan.

For 30 years I've been schooled in everything from government, and economics, to medicine and international relations. But don't be impressed. Someone once said being a general assignment reporter simply means you are equally ignorant about most everything. In other words, I know a little about a lot.

As I have said many times - my father was a great fan of Bill Dickey's and he certainly loved the Yankees. I hope that he would be pleased.

Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on the American people than any other institution.

In the age of the specialist, the generalsit gets short shrift.

I was actually more of a baseball and Padres fan when I was younger.

I'm a huge baseball fan and follow it very closely.

Brooklyn was a famous team. I wanted to play for the Dodgers.

I love baseball history, and Wrigley Field is as good as it gets when it comes to that.