Baseball fans are junkies, and their heroin is the statistic. – Robert S. Wieder
The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between. – Bill Veeck
Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too. – Greg, age8
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
In cricket, as in no other game, a great master may well go back to the pavilion scoreless…. In no other game does the law of averages get to work so potently, so mysteriously. – Neville Cardus, Cardus on the Ashes, 1989
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple. – Barry Switzer
