Oh, the joys of baseball, manly men in tight pants.
I'm a baseball player, I'm not a political activist.
I'm blessed with health and energy and passion for the game of baseball, and also to help children.
Sports like baseball or baseball are easy to dramatise, because all of them have a pause and that helps with the tension. Football never stops. I'm a football fan. I believe in the beauty of the game.
I used to think it would be neat to play my whole career with one team. But as a baseball player you want to come to the ballpark every day knowing you have a chance to win and that the games mean something.
Major League Baseball should retire Roberto Clemente's number, just like they did Jackie Robinson's.
I remember the Chillicothe ballplayers grappling the Long Island ball players in a sixteen-inning game ended by darkness. And the shoulders of the Chillicothe players were a red smoke against the sundown and the shoulders of the Rock Island players were a yellow smoke against the sundown. And the umpire's voice was hoarse calling balls and strikes and outs and the umpire's throat fought in the dust for a song.
I never get nervous. Baseball consists of two things: hitting and pitching, and we've got both.
This is totally unexpected. I thought I'd be in the NBA or the NFL. I never thought baseball. It's kind of like a surprise. I'm happy it happened.
I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.
I played three sports in high school, baseball, football and basketball. Baseball really helped me a lot.
Baseball is our national game.
I think the cloud of suspicion has been hanging over baseball for a while. I think there has been some positive things that have come out of that. There has been a drug test policy that was been implemented that got the blessings of both the Players Association and MLB. They are trying to maintain the integrity of this sport and trying to get it back, but that cloud I think will hang over a little longer.
I had a marvelous baseball career and after my baseball career, there is an abundance of opportunity out there.
One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.
Because Cards' fans are the most knowledgeable and loyal in all of baseball, they booed almost reluctantly, polite as booing goes, what would have passes as a standing ovation in Philly.
How lucky have we been that the face of baseball for the past two decades, through ups and downs, has been Derek Jeter.
On behalf of Major League Baseball, I am terribly saddened by the sudden passing of Kirby Puckett. He was a Hall of Famer in every sense of the term. He was revered throughout the country and will be remembered wherever the game is played. Kirby was taken from us much too soon - and too quickly.
I just wouldn't have believed a ball could be hit that hard. I've never seen anything like it.
That would bring tears to the eyes of a rocking chair.
When a professional baseball team asks you to throw out the first pitch, that's an honor, and you do it.
I'm just a big boy, I'm still just playing cowboys and Indians and astronaut and baseball player and all that stuff that I used to play as a kid.
I'm a Major League 3rd Baseman. If you want to go play in parking lot, I'm suppose to stop the ball.
I'm definitely an athlete who has a hobby playing music. I've been doing baseball since I was 5 or 6. It's the only thing I've ever thought of really my whole life, and music came into my life actually in '99, playing and singing. It's definitely been the only hobby I've had that I can't put down.
Boston fans - and New York fans are the same - it doesn't matter what you do outside of baseball, they don't forgive or forget that you play in pinstripes and they don't care about your interests off the field.
