Johnny Vander Meer quotes:

I have always been a firm believer that the game has never belonged to the owners. It has never belonged to the ballplayers. It belongs to the guy who puts his money up on the window and says, 'How much does it cost to sit in the bleachers?' That is who owns baseball. And it has got to be kept that way.

All the publicity, the attention, the interviews, the photographs, were too much for me (after throwing his second no-hitter in 1938).

Kids are always chasing rainbows, but baseball is a world where you can catch them.