"And they'll walk out to the bleachers, sit in short sleeves on a perfect evening. They'll find you have reserved seats somewhere along one of the base lines, where they sat when they were children and cheered their heroes. And they'll watch the game. It will be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick that they'll have to brush them away from their faces."

"The one constant through all the years has been baseball. North America has rolled by it like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past. It reminds us of all that once was good and it could be again."

Classic "Who's On First?" routine by Abbott and Costello - CLICK HERE

THEY SAID IT ABOUT BASEBALL!

"If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there is a man on base." -- Dave Barry

"Trying to hit him (Phil Niekro) was like trying to eat Jell-O with chopsticks."
--Bobby Murcer, Yankees outfielder

"The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely."
-- Ted Williams

"All last year we tried to teach him (Fernando Valenzuela) English, and the only word he learned was: million."
---Tommy Lasorda

"They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it."
---Willie Mays

"No man in the history of baseball had as much power as Mickey Mantle. No man. You're not talking about ordinary power. Dave Kingman has power. Willie Mays had power. Then when you're talking about Mickey Mantle - it's an altogether different level. Separates the men from the boys."
- New York Yankees Manager Billy Martin

SPARKEY ANDERSON
"A baseball manager is a necessary evil."

YOGI BERRA
"Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets."

YOGI BERRA
"Ithink Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house."

YOGI BERRA
"Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical."

RED SMITH, Sportswriter
"Baseball is dull only to dull minds."

HARRY S. TRUMAN
"I couldn't see will enough to play when I was a boy, so they gave me a special job-they made me the umpire."

RON LUCIANO, American League Umpire
"One reason I never called balks is that I never understood the rule."

RON LUCIANO, American League Umpire
"Any umpire who claims he has never missed a play is . an umpire"

LEO DUROCHER
"I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes."

DIZZY DEAN
"It ain't braggin' if you can back it up."

LOU GEHRIG
"The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all."

SANDY KOUFAX
"I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it."

STAN MUSIAL
"I never realized that batting a little ball around could cause so much commotion."

BABE RUTH
"Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world."

TED WILLIAMS
"Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer."

WARREN SPAHN
"Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing."

ROBERTO CLEMENTE
"I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all he had to give."

CASEY STENGEL
"Most ball games are lost, not won."

CASEY STENGEL
"Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa."

BOB UECKER
"Career highlights? I had two. I got an intentional walk from Sandy Koufax and I got out of a rundown against the Mets."

BOB UECKER
"I led the league in "Go get 'em next time."

BOB UECKER
"When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team's dugout and they were already in street clothes." 

HUMPHREY BOGART
"A hot dog at the ballpark is better than a steak at the Ritz."

BILL SHEA, Mets Executive
"Families go to ballparks and that is why baseball is still our namtional game."