Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.
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I had a great time with baseball growing up. I was lucky to grow up with it and to learn.
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.
My little brothers loved baseball. I'm not as big on that as basketball or football, but I understand the game.
I think that to fully appreciate baseball, it helps to have been born in the U.S.
I was a baseball fan myself, I wanted to play baseball.
Baseball cannot be learned as a trade. It begins with the sport of the schoolboy, and though it may end in the professional, I am sure there is not a single one of these who learned the game with the expectation of making it a business. There have been years in the life of each during which he must have ate and drank and dreamed baseball.
Baseball is like cricket, and I grew up in a country where they had cricket. So I understand cricket, soccer and basketball. I played basketball at the club level and a little bit in college, so that's why I'm a basketball fanatic.
Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
Baseball is the favorite American sport because it's so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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