The Great American Pastime
"...Next to religion, baseball has furnished a greater impact on American life than any other institution."
- Herbert Hoover
"...There are two things I teach the boys that are all American. One's the good old flag and one's baseball."
- Sports writer Tim Murnane, 1908
"Baseball is our national game."
- Calvin Coolidge
"You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat."
- Christy Mathewson
"You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too."
- Roy Campanella
"There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best."
- Joe DiMaggio
"Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of Earth."
- Opening of Lou Gehrig's farewell address at Yankee Stadium, July 4,1939
"I want to be a baseball player who gave all he had to give."
- Roberto Clemente
"It could be....It might be....It is! A home run!"
- Broadcaster Harry Caray's signature call
"Baseball is a game that cannot be won, just played. It is way you play that determines who wins."
- Scott Douglas, head coach of TSJC men's baseball team, 2006
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