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

Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for the house in blackjack. – Adam Morrow, quoted in Bill Simmons, “Letters from the Nation,” 20 October 2003

I know a man who is a diamond cutter. He mows the lawn at Yankee Stadium. – Author Unknown