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Chicago in the early twentieth century was already one of the most corrupt cities in the United States. One classic example of this was the 1919 World Series Baseball, when a New York gangsta Arnold Rothstein bribed the Chicago White Sox to lose. Police and politicians all took bribes. The Story of Al Capone
Since you are not in fact working for the soulless minions of orthodoxy that have hounded my work and plagued my existence I have decided to open negotiations regarding the sale of a mint condition 1951 Willie Mays rookie card – without the original packaging or chewing gum. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s5e25: In the Cards, Dr Elias Giger
Sisko: All right, Niners, let’s hear some chatter!
Niners: [chants along the lines of ‘Hey batter batter batter!’]
Worf: Death to the opposition. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s7e4: Take Me Out to the Holosuite
This yestermania of ours includes fantasy baseball camps … In this case, the age of hyphens, we are truly retro-America. George Carlin, Brain Droppings audio
The major sports have grown kind of boring and predictable, and the public has become jaded. So I’m suggesting a few changes that would add excitement to the games and increase their entertainment value. Baseball has one major problem: not enough serious injuries … Fans are crying out for someone to really be hurt badly, so, to raise the injury level, what I would do is place thirty to forty land-mines in the outfield … Like most good ideas it’s uncomplicated: if the pitcher hits the batter with the ball the batter is out. That’s it. A simple idea. But it could make quite a difference. And maybe if the ball hits the batter in the head it could be a double play … George Carlin, More Napalm & Silly Putty
I really don’t see how they played baseball travelling the way they did in those ramshackle buses without any sleep. Shelby Foote, re black baseball league players
Baseball is more fun than anything else. Robert Creamer, writer
The National Pastime. The Sunday New York Mercury 5th December 1856
The aim of baseball is to employ professional players to perspire in public for the benefit of gamblers. The New York Times, cited Burns
Babe Ruth, Baseball Idol, Dies At 53 After Lingering Illness. The New York Times 17th August 1948
Say it ain’t so, Joe. Plea attributed to boy as Jackson emerged from hearing into bribing of Chicago players 1919 World Series
For the first time in 86 years, for the first time since 1918, they are champions of the world. For the Red Sox next year is finally here. US game commentary 2004 world series
You have to have broad shoulders to be on top. Barry Bonds
This record is not tainted at all. Barry Bonds
Explosive Book Rocks Baseball: Steroid Firestorm: Who used performance drugs; how and where they did it; what they say about it now: Fury Over Conseco Revelations. Daily News February 2005
Report To The Commissioner of Baseball Of An Independent Investigation Into The Illegal Use of Steroids And Other Performance Enhancing Substances By Players In Major League Baseball. George Mitchell, December 2007
America was defined by baseball. This was our national game. So the drama of this moment of Robinson coming in is enormous because of the game being tied to the National Character. Gerald Early, writer
There’s nothing quite like it and it still takes my breath away after fifty years. Gary Hoenig, editor
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. Bob Feller
People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. Rogers Hornsby
Baseball is a team game but, at the same time, it’s a very lonely game: unlike in soccer or basketball, where players roam around, in baseball everyone has their little plot of the field to tend. When the action comes to you, the spotlight is on you but no one can help you. Chad Harbach
Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world. Babe Ruth
Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder. Babe Ruth
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime. Babe Ruth
The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it. Jackie Robinson
As long as I appear to ignore insults and injury I was a martyred hero to a lot of people. But the minute I began to sound off, I became a swell-head wise guy and upperty nigger. Jackie Robinson
64,539. There are only two seasons – Winter and Baseball. Bill Veeck
The thing I like about baseball is that it’s one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it’s your mistake. If you hit a home run, it’s your home run. Hank Aaron
I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That’s when you’ve got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing’s a joke to me. I don’t feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face. Hank Aaron
I see great things in baseball. It’s our game – the American game. Walt Whitman
Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It’s no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It’s a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest. Ty Cobb
The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it. Ty Cobb
Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing’s ever been as fun as baseball. Mickey Mantle
The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It’s the only thing I know. Mickey Mantle
God knows I gave my best in baseball at all times and no man on earth can truthfully judge me otherwise. Shoeless Joe Jackson
I played in a new pair of shoes one day and they wore big blisters on my feet. The next day we came up short of players, a couple of men hurt and one missing ... I tried it with my old shoes on and just couldn’t make it. He told me I’d have to play anyway, so I threw away the shoes and went to the outfield in my stockinged feet ... They picked it up and started calling me Shoeless Joe all around the league, and it stuck. I never played the outfield barefoot, and that was the only day I ever played in my stockinged feet, but it stuck with me. Shoeless Joe Jackson
If you have a bad day in baseball, and start thinking about it, you will have ten more. Sammy Sosa
I watch a lot of baseball on the radio. Gerald R Ford
Major league baseball has asked its players to stop tossing baseballs into the stands during games, because they say fans fight over them and they get hurt. In fact, the Florida Marlins said that’s why they never hit any home runs. It’s a safety issue. Jay Leno