"England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example."
Robert Benchley.

"Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in."
Casey Stengel.

"Don't forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball."
Woodie Held.

"Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot."
Dick Gregory.

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

"More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood."
Thomas Boswell.

"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.

"Why does everybody stand up and sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" when they're already there?"
Larry Anderson.

"A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time."
William C. Feather.