World Series

When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw up your taxes. – Don Drysdale, 1978

What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs. – Harry Caray

There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem – once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit. – Al Gallagher, 1971

You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time. – Jim Bouton, Ball Four, 1970

A hot dog at the ball park is better than steak at the Ritz. – Humphrey Bogart

Baseball is a harbor, a seclusion from failure that really matters, a playful utopia in which virtuosity can be savored to the third decimal place of a batting average. – Mark Kramer

You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too. – Roy Campanella

Good pitching will beat good hitting any time, and vice versa. – Bob Veale, 1966

Say this much for big league baseball – it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America. – Bruce Catton

The charm of baseball is that, dull as it may be on the field, it is endlessly fascinating as a rehash. – Jim Murray

It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. – A. Bartlett Giamatti, "The Green Fields of the Mind," Yale Alumni Magazi

Baseball is the only place in life where a sacrifice is really appreciated. – Author Unknown

Ideally, the umpire should combine the integrity of a Supreme Court judge, the physical agility of an acrobat, the endurance of Job and the imperturbability of Buddha. – "The Villains in Blue," Time magazine, 25 August 1961

Baseball is an allegorical play about America, a poetic, complex, and subtle play of courage, fear, good luck, mistakes, patience about fate, and sober self-esteem. – Saul Steinberg

A baseball fan has the digestive apparatus of a billy goat. He can, and does, devour any set of diamond statistics with insatiable appetite and then nuzzles hungrily for more. – Arthur Daley

A critic once characterized baseball as six minutes of action crammed into two-and-one-half hours. – Ray Fitzgerald, in Boston Glove, 1970

The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love. – Bryant Gumbel, 1981

There have been only two geniuses in the world. Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare. – Tallulah Bankhead

Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine. – Pat Conroy

Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up. – Sharon Olds, This Sporting Life, 1987