Herbert Hoover Quotes

Say this for big league baseball - it is beyond any question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.

I love my baseball, and I love my Phillies.

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

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

Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.

Although baseball actually began as a game played largely by urban toughs, its image was soon reconstructed to mirror the country's pastoral myth.

All America is familiar with the Yankee-Dodger-Giant trivia, but so many other teams had great moments.

Baseball is just a game, obviously, but it means a lot to a lot of different people.

Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money.

I've had a good time here in baseball. I love baseball. That's why I'm still around.

It was not long before I was struck with the idea that base ball was just the game for a national sport for Americans.

In baseball 30 days is an eternity.

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

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

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

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip.

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.

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

I am a huge Red Sox fan.

Baseball was the darling of all sports back then.

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.

As we all know, Cooperstown is the home of baseball. One of the many duties of the home plate umpire is to make sure that the runner touches home. Well, if you're a true baseball fan, you need to visit Cooperstown. This is home.

A World Series trophy is a wonderful thing to behold.

I miss baseball.