2,899 Quotes About Baseball

General manager Frank Lane made his mark on the club by making several unpopular or unsuccessful trades. Among the guys he traded to other teams are Rocky Colavito, Roger Maris, Norm Cash, and … manager Joe Gordon? Uh, yes. Lane and Detroit GM Bill DeWitt traded managers—Joe Gordon for Jimmy Dykes. Lane’s tenure ended shortly thereafter, long before the damage he caused.

God takes care of drunks and third basemen

The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.

Baseball is not life. It is a fiction, a metaphor. And a ballplayer is a man who agrees to uphold that metaphor as though lives were at stake.

I call 'em as I see 'em

Some of ours is so crooked they can't lay in a birth only when the trains making a curve.

Often, bumpy roads lead to beautiful places. And this is a beautiful place.

The Indians franchise is more than a century old. It’s been called the Blues, the Bronchos, and the Naps. It’s also been called a lot worse during hard times when the team wasn’t winning.

The best word to describe Albert Belle during the mid-1990s is “prolific.” The man could flat hit.