The place was always cold, and I got the feeling that the fans would have enjoyed baseball more if it had been played with a hockey puck. – Andre Dawson, on Montreal

Baseball, to me, is still the national pastime because it is a summer game. I feel that almost all Americans are summer people, that summer is what they think of when they think of their childhood. I think it stirs up an incredible emotion within people. – Steve Busby, in Washington Post, 8 July 1974

There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an ass. – Neville Cardus, A Fourth Innings with Cardus, 1981, referring to cricket

Baseball is an island of activity amidst a sea of statistics. – Author Unknown