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I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.

Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray.

I went through baseball as 'a player to be named later."

Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.

I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.

I love the game of baseball.

There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.

I wasn't ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff.

I wanted to be a professional baseball player.

On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.

There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.

There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.

The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.

The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as 'steroids."

Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.

I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.

Why is it there are so many nice guys interested in baseball? Not me, I was a real bastard when I played.

I'm going through a divorce now. This is the second one, and like baseball, I'm not gonna get three strikes. I've been living by myself for five years and I'm very comfortable. I can play my guitar when I want to.