When I played Little League, I looked up to the big leaguers, too, and collected their baseball cards.
My dad was big about talking about baseball and Latin players.
To baseball players, our caps are sacred. We integrate our caps into our strange routines and superstitions, removing and replacing them on our heads with ritual precision so they sit just so.
I liked George Weiss when he was with the Yankees. He loved the Old Timers' Day. He loved it. And he invited all these people to come, all these players to come.
I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.
Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money.
Every time I sign a ball, and there must have been thousands, I thank my luck that I wasn’t born Coveleski or Wambsganss or Peckinpaugh.
There's certainly a large literature around baseball in the U.S.
I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing.
I love baseball history, and Wrigley Field is as good as it gets when it comes to that.
You always dream about being on a baseball card. It's kind of funny when you finally see it.
I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game.
As we all know, Cooperstown is the home of baseball. One of the many duties of the home plate umpire is to make sure that the runner touches home. Well, if you're a true baseball fan, you need to visit Cooperstown. This is home.
What's the best baseball name of all time? Is it Champ Summers? Clyde Kluttz? Razor Shines? Scipio Spinks? Sibby Sisti? Creepy Crespi? Before you answer, consider that Coco Crisp is not even the game's top Coco, an honor retired by Coco Laboy.
All America is familiar with the Yankee-Dodger-Giant trivia, but so many other teams had great moments.
Did I collect baseball cards? I've got 10 books full of plastic in my mother's house. All the Upper Decks, the Fleers, the Fleer Ultras. My grandfather brought me to the trade shows. I collected Marvel cards, too.
Say this for big league baseball - it is beyond any question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.
I know everything about Ty Cobb except the size of his hat.
I have sets, literally, of almost every single year of Strat-O-Matic baseball. That's how huge I was into it.
Fill in any figure you want for that boy (Mickey Mantle). Whatever the figure, it's a deal.
Brooklyn was a famous team. I wanted to play for the Dodgers.
A World Series trophy is a wonderful thing to behold.
Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on the American people than any other institution.
I've been a baseball fan in the early part of my life, so through the '70s and the '80s, I was a huge fan. I actually followed the Dodgers back then, back in the Kirk Gibson years, Steve Garvey.
I love baseball and love the Indians and all the teams here.
