12 Quotes by Bill Vaughn

Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.

America is a land where a citizen will cross the ocean to fight for democracy - and wont cross the street to vote in a national election.

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.

It's the mathematical potential for a single game to last forever, in a suspended world where no clock rules the day, that aligns baseball as much with the dead as the living.

It is the life-affirming genius of baseball that the short can pummel the tall, the rotund can make fools of the sleek, and no matter how far down you find yourself in the bottom of the ninth you can always pull out a miracle.

We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.

When a fellow you knew in school attains some lofty public office, you're glad for his sake - but somewhat apprehensive for the future of the country

They may still work their way out on their own.

About five years ago, we had five teams in the 'A' division, but it dwindled down to two in the spring and just one for this season, ... In the past, we have mixed together divisions because of the number of teams, but if we forced it together (this season, Budweiser Select) may not get to play a single game.