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Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game. -- Branch Rickey
Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring can return. -- Marvin Olasky
Baseball and the players association have rules. If you stay within the rules - which say that you can play while you're appealing - I don't see what anyone would be in arms about. -- Pete Rose
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. -- Jacques Barzun
In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's. -- Ernie Harwell
Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray. -- Joe Garagiola
Is it in the best interest of baseball to sell beer in the ninth inning? Probably not. The rule has got to be more clearly defined. And then some process should be set up where the judge is not also the appeals judge. -- George Steinbrenner
Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents - judges' decisions - rather than statutes, baseball's codes are the game's distilled mores. Their unchanged purpose is to show respect for opponents and the game. In baseball, as in the remainder of life, the most important rules are unwritten. But not unenforced. -- George Will
My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn... If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year's time. -- Bob Feller
Economy is not baseball, where the game is always played by the same rules. -- Nate Silver
Are there rules about betting on baseball games? Yeah--you have to stay away from the Padres. -- James Siegel
What's the game coming to? Evidently the guys making all these rules never played the game of baseball. -- Pete Rose
Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football. -- Bill Bryson
I love art because it doesn't have rules like baseball. The only rule is to be good. That's the toughest thing to do. -- Harry Callahan
Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time. -- W. P. Kinsella

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