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“Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal” – Journalist & Author, George Will<\/p>\n
“Baseball is an American icon. It is the Statue of Liberty, the bald eagle, ‘In God We Trust,’ Mount Rushmore, ice cream, apple pie, hot dogs, and rally monkeys. Baseball is America.” – Victor Baltov, Jr. in\u00a0Baseball Is America<\/em><\/p>\n “Baseball is a drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.” – Joe Garagiola in\u00a0Baseball Is A Funny Game<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cBaseball isn\u2019t just a game. It\u2019s life being played out on a field \u2013 a field of dreams \u2013 on diamonds of green, where players pursuing their dreams try to be the best they can be on the grandest stage of all \u2013 where men become boys and boys become men, all speaking one universal language without uttering a single word.\u201d – Tom Tatum<\/p>\n \u201cSandor Boatly had never guessed that, properly played, baseball consisted of mathematics, geometry, art, philosophy, ballet, and carnival, all intertwined like the mystical ribbons of color in a rainbow.\u201d – W.P. Kinsella<\/p>\n \u201cBaseball is not life. It is a fiction, a metaphor. And a ballplayer is a man who agrees to uphold that metaphor as though lives were at stake.\u201d – David James Duncan<\/p>\n \u201c[Baseball] is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action\u201d – John Irving<\/p>\n “For all its gentility, it\u2019s almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.” – Willie Mays<\/p>\n \u201cNo matter how good you are, you\u2019re going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you\u2019re going to win one-third of your games. It\u2019s the other third that makes the difference.\u201d – Tommy Lasorda<\/p>\n \u201cA ballplayer spends a good piece of his life gripping a baseball, and in the end, it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.\u201d – Jim Bouton<\/p>\n “You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.” – Cal Ripken, Jr.<\/p>\n \u201cBaseball is a team sport played by individuals for themselves.\u201d \u2013 Joe Torre<\/p>\n “There may be people who have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you.”\u00a0– Derek Jeter<\/p>\n \u201cYesterday\u2019s home runs don\u2019t win today\u2019s games.\u201d \u2013 Babe Ruth<\/p>\n \u201cA baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.\u201d \u2013 Earl Wilson<\/p>\n “Baseball is a lot like life. It’s a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in life.” – American Sportscaster Ernie Harwell<\/p>\n “Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday’s success or put its failures behind and start over again. That’s the way life is, with a new game every day, and that’s the way baseball is.” – Bullet Bob Feller<\/p>\n \u201cMore than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.\u201d – Thomas Boswell<\/p>\n \u201cLove is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.\u201d \u2013 Yogi Berra<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s one of the great gifts of this, the greatest of all games, baseball: it allows you, still, to lose yourself in a dream, to feel and remember a season of life when summer never seemed to die and the assault of cynicism hadn\u2019t begun to batter optimism.\u201d \u2013 Mike Barnicle<\/p>\n <\/p>\n