There's a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus Wagner hit a triple in Pittsburgh 46 years ago. That's baseball.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.
Baseball was the darling of all sports back then.
As I look out there and see the culture of baseball, a lot of blacks and Latins, it's given me a lot of joy to know that Jackie started that. If Jackie hadn't come in '47, me and Ron Santo wouldn't have played in Double-A and all those years in the big leagues.
One of the things I've learned is that baseball is something that happens over time.
Without Cooperstown, you don't have baseball: Baseball is history.
I miss baseball.
Baseball is the life.
Some of my finest memories are from my time at the University of Texas. College baseball, I love it.
In '83, we went over to Amsterdam. I just remember people saying, 'Baseball's just starting over here. They're learning how to play the game of baseball.'
The great thing about baseball is when you're done, you'll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask me about 1989, I'll tell them I had amnesia.