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I see great things in baseball. It’s our game - the American game  (Baseball In America Quotes) America brought us the baseball cap; it’s one of my favorite hats  (Baseball In America Quotes) Baseball is a skilled game. It’s America’s game - it, and high taxes  (Baseball In America Quotes) When I took the job as the manager of the Olympic team, I didn’t take it because I was a Dodger. I did it because I was an American, and I wanted to bring that gold medal where it belongs in baseball, the United States. And that’s exactly what our team did.  (Baseball In America Quotes) Baseball grew rapidly in favor; the field was ripe. America needed a live outdoor sport, and this game exactly suited the national temperament. It required all the manly qualities of activity, endurance, pluck, and skill peculiar to cricket, and was immeasurably superior to that game in exciting features.  (Baseball In America Quotes) Baseball has done more to move America in the right direction than all of the professional patriots with all their cheap words.  (Baseball In America Quotes) Baseball was a metaphor for America, both here and in terms of how it was understood by the rest of the world.  (Baseball In America Quotes) Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers.  (Baseball In America Quotes) Say this much for big league baseball - it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.  (Baseball In America Quotes) Baseball is America’s pastime, and that record is absolutely huge in the States  (Baseball In America Quotes) I’m always telling people baseball needs to be more prominent in the African American community. What a better way to do so, going on these TV shows and appearing on the cover of this or that. Now kids can see how baseball can change your life. Frank Thomas did that for me.  (Baseball In America Quotes) Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in the American experience. Since the founding of our country, citizens from Ben Franklin to David Letterman have made fun of their elected officials  (Baseball In America Quotes) I knew I was the second-best tennis player in the state of Florida and No. 8 in the United States of America when I was 12 years old and I couldn’t tell you what I was in baseball, but I liked my chances in tennis of getting a scholarship to college  (Baseball In America Quotes) I just got hooked on the radio, the voice of it all. It was my connection to metropolitan America, if you will. Sports, in particularly baseball then ‘cause of its rich sediment of numbers, was one of the first things a young person could peg up with adults on - that is, you could know as much about Jimmy Fox as your father did  (Baseball In America Quotes) Every day I went to the ballpark in Yankee Stadium as well as on the road people were on my back. The last six years in the American League were mental hell for me. I was drained of all my desire to play baseball  (Baseball In America Quotes) In America, we have three major sports - baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there’s things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole  (Baseball In America Quotes) I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn’t really there yet  (Baseball In America Quotes) England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example  (Baseball In America Quotes) The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons  (Baseball In America Quotes)