A good cigar is like a beautiful chick with a great body who also knows the American League box scores. – M*A*S*H, Klinger, “Bug-Out,” 1976

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