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The Capone era. That was my time. Capone was a big baseball fan. He'd walk into the ballpark like the president walking in today, with bodyguards all around him.

— Billy Herman

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Baseball was the darling of all sports back then.

— Marion Motley

I went to high school with Al Capone.

— Desi Arnaz

I felt like the world of baseball in 1919 was much closer to what A-ball would be now - guys riding buses, there's no training staff, and there's a lot of paranoia.

— D. B. Sweeney

For a long time, I'd been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in the same summer.

— Bill Bryson

Baseball was socially relevant, and so was my rebellion against it.

— Curt Flood

The interesting thing is that it seems like George W. Bush would have been happy being the president of anything. He could have been president of Major League Baseball.

— Eddie Vedder

I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.

— Hunter S. Thompson

People I look to: again, Hank Aaron, man you challenged the status quo and the records of the game. Monumental feats in an era where people didn't like that.

— Dave Winfield

The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.

— Waite Hoyt

My dad and all my family were into baseball. His brothers, my mom's brothers, my mom's father. Baseball was just always a part of our family.

— Mark Teixeira

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