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My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball; however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs.

The vast majority of people who watch baseball can properly call 95% of all plays that happen on the field. My job is to teach you how to call the other 5%.

As a youngster, I played in Little League, Pony League, and all sorts of amateur baseball programs growing up.

Anyone interested in becoming a professional umpire and becoming eligible to work in the minor leagues must attend one of the two umpire schools sanctioned by Major League Baseball.

If I had to name the number one asset you could have for any sport I'd say speed. In baseball, all a guy with speed has to do is make contact.

There couldn't have been a better Hollywood ending for us. It's beyond baseball. It's rooting for your family.

Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.

I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseball anything, either.

Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.

That's what Major League Baseball's steroid scandal was all about, the hidden harm in competitive sports that sends the wrong message to the young.

It was so difficult for the fans to understand my problems with baseball.

Whatever I contributed to the unique morale of the Cardinals was part of this growth, and so, of course, was my decision to have it out in public with the owners of organized baseball.

The baseball establishment is permissive about revelry.

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

Baseball regards us as sheep.

And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates.

You kind of took it for granted around the Yankees that there was always going to be baseball in October.

I watch a lot of baseball on the radio.

When I started to sing, my mother would have me engaged to perform at the Women's Christian Temperance Union national or annual meetings. I would hate doing this because I wanted to play baseball or go off skiing.

We used to play baseball back in that field and keep an eye out for the bulls.