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I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. -- Walt Whitman
Say this for big league baseball - it is beyond any question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America. -- Bruce Catton
In 2002, in this country, there was an observation that for the first time in America, more kids were actively pursuing skateboarding than baseball. -- Stephen Baldwin
These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don't have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks. -- Jimmy Buffett
The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons. -- Michael Lewis
And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled. -- Parminder Nagra
I sang the National Anthem at Dodger Stadium - at a baseball game - which was crazy; there was, like, 60,000 people there, which is a huge deal in America - singing the National Anthem. -- Adam DeVine
I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn't really there yet. -- Claudio Reyna
Every day I went to the ballpark in Yankee Stadium as well as on the road people were on my back. The last six years in the American League were mental hell for me. I was drained of all my desire to play baseball. -- Roger Maris
In America, we have three major sports - baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there's things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole. -- Maurice Greene
You know that everyone thinks that in order to do South Park we must be wild, crazy, rock and roll stars. But the truth is we're just wholesome middle-American guys. We enjoy soda pop, baseball and beating up old people just as much as anybody. -- Trey Parker
Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in the American experience. Since the founding of our country, citizens from Ben Franklin to David Letterman have made fun of their elected officials. -- Evan Bayh
Baseball grew rapidly in favor; the field was ripe. America needed a live outdoor sport, and this game exactly suited the national temperament. It required all the manly qualities of activity, endurance, pluck, and skill peculiar to cricket, and was immeasurably superior to that game in exciting features. -- John Montgomery Ward
I knew I was the second-best tennis player in the state of Florida and No. 8 in the United States of America when I was 12 years old and I couldn't tell you what I was in baseball, but I liked my chances in tennis of getting a scholarship to college. -- Jim Courier
When I took the job as the manager of the Olympic team, I didn't take it because I was a Dodger. I did it because I was an American, and I wanted to bring that gold medal where it belongs in baseball, the United States. And that's exactly what our team did. -- Tommy Lasorda
I'm always telling people baseball needs to be more prominent in the African American community. What a better way to do so, going on these TV shows and appearing on the cover of this or that. Now kids can see how baseball can change your life. Frank Thomas did that for me. -- Matt Kemp
Baseball and American football and hockey are all ahead because they have a history. The MLS is kind of new. So hopefully, in time, and with players coming and trying to develop the game, and the U.S. team also doing well - at the last World Cup, they finished above England and created some buzz. -- Thierry Henry
Marlins Park is what I call my office in Miami, because I work for the Venezuelan Museum of Baseball and Hall of Fame. My job is to go to all the MLB stadiums and to talk to and collect articles from all the Venezuelan players in the big leagues and those Americans that played in Venezuela. -- Juan Pablo Galavis
At the high school level, the coaches get these kids in revenue-driven sports and take them away from baseball. There's so much pressure on these kids to even play spring football. We need to get the African-American players back in the game, which I think would make it not only a better game, but more exciting and entertaining for everyone. -- Pat Gillick
I just got hooked on the radio, the voice of it all. It was my connection to metropolitan America, if you will. Sports, in particularly baseball then 'cause of its rich sediment of numbers, was one of the first things a young person could peg up with adults on - that is, you could know as much about Jimmy Fox as your father did. -- George Will
America brought us the baseball cap; it's one of my favorite hats. -- Philip Treacy
Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game - it, and high taxes. -- Will Rogers
Baseball is America's pastime, and that record is absolutely huge in the States. -- Pete Sampras
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball. -- Jacques Barzun
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball. -- Jacques Barzun
Say this much for big league baseball - it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America. -- Bruce Catton
Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers. -- Donald Hall
Baseball was a metaphor for America, both here and in terms of how it was understood by the rest of the world. -- Harrison Ford
Baseball has done more to move America in the right direction than all of the professional patriots with all their cheap words. -- Monte Irvin
England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example. -- Robert Benchley
I've been wanting to do a book about baseball for the longest time, and nobody will let me do it. It's the one thing from America I really miss. -- Bill Bryson
Baseball is part of America's plot, part of America's mysterious, underlying design-the plot in which we all conspire and collude, the plot of the story of our national life. -- Albert Allen Bartlett

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