When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.
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I think that to fully appreciate baseball, it helps to have been born in the U.S.
We're a crazy country about sports, but for the longest time, only followed our own sports.
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.
Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished.
I always wanted to do a baseball book; I love baseball. The problem is that a very large part of my following is in non-baseball playing countries.
Waving the flag at the 1976 Olympics wasn't my idea. It was too much apple pie and ice cream. Not that I don't love my country, but I felt it was my victory up there, I put all the time into it.
Having different people come together and be on a team and win a world championship is literally, I think, the definition of being American.
I mean the game is just, everybody talks about baseball but I really think football probably has a little bit more American feeling than anything.
Baseball is what we were, and football is what we have become.
The game is just, everybody talks about baseball, but I really think football probably has a little bit more American feeling than anything.
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