Baseball History Quotes

#1. Finally learning his baseball history, on the topic of Hank Aaron and his home run record

Alfonso Soriano

#2. After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.

Reggie Jackson

#3. Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money.

Joe Torre

#4. And wasn't that a great moment in baseball history," Holly Grace replied with withering sarcasm. "Helen Keller pitching and Little Stevie Wonder catching.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#5. Chipper Jones will be in the Hall of Fame. The #1 overall pick in the 1990 draft, Chipper will be remembered as the greatest switch-hitting third baseman in baseball history.

Tucker Elliot

#6. It was one at bat during October 1975 that defined his [Joe Morgan's] place in baseball history and secured the legacy of the Big Red Machine, all with one swing.

Tucker Elliot

#7. In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.

John Thorn

#8. I wish that they had the freedoms like the Japanese and the Koreans and the Mexicans and everybody else that has that freedom to come over here and play the game, because I know Cuba has a very strong baseball history.

Rafael Palmeiro

#9. No player in baseball history worked harder, suffered more, or did it better than Andre Dawson. He's the best I've ever seen.

Ryne Sandberg

#10. In August 1945, a former Army pilot with an artificial leg pitched five and a third innings for Washington against Boston. This would turn out to be Bert Shepard's only major league game, and it remains one of the heartwarming moments in baseball history.

George Vecsey

#11. By any reasonable standard (i.e. he didn't cheat), Aaron is one of the greatest sluggers in baseball history - and there shouldn't even be a debate about who is baseball's true all-time home run champion (again, no cheating).

Tucker Elliot

#12. The history of [Mariano] Rivera is pretty unbelievable. And even if you're not a Yankee or a baseball fan, you have to appreciate the tradition. He gets respect from Boston fans and Phillies fans, and I love tradition.

Andrea Tantaros

#13. Imagine if baseball were taught the way science is taught in most inner-city schools. Schoolchildren would get lectures about the history of the World Series. High school students would occasionally reproduce famous plays of the past. Nobody would get in the game themselves until graduate school.

Alison Gopnik

#14. Cecelia sat and watched us drink. I could see that I repulsed her. I ate meat. I had no god. I liked to fuck. Nature didn't
interest me. I never voted. I liked wars. Outer space bored me. Baseball bored me. History bored me. Zoos bored me.

Charles Bukowski

#15. I think that baseball as a whole, I am a huge romantic when it comes to the history and the stats and the numbers the stories behind it, so I would consider myself a pretty big fan.

Graham Elliot

#16. Without Cooperstown, you don't have baseball: Baseball is history.

Brian Kilmeade

#17. Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all over the place, all the time.

Michael Lewis

#18. Sometimes are feats aren't so fabulous, they're just dubious - but either way, they're fun to talk about.

Tucker Elliot

#19. Yes, we've seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. But no, the sky is not falling - baseball is such a great game that neither the owners nor the players can kill it. After some necessary carnage, market forces will prevail.

John Thorn

#20. No man in the history of baseball had as much power as . No man.

Mickey Mantle

#21. As history of any kind will tell us, when human beings get an opportunity to express their individual selves, a few selves will go completely over the top.

Doug Glanville

#22. Perhaps crossing the barriers of time has freed me.

W.P. Kinsella

#23. Of course, I believe that Mike Piazza is probably the greatest offensive catcher in the history of baseball, only got over 50%. Johnny Bench is the best catcher in the history of baseball, but Piazza has all the record for catchers as far as offensively.

Pete Rose

#24. I also knew that I was on my way to becoming the worst athlete in the history of American boyhood.

Frank Rich

#25. The southpaw also struck out 53 percent of the batters he faced. That's the highest single-season percentage in history,

Baseball Prospectus

#26. American history and the history of baseball are bound up together: our racial politics can be described and traced through it.

Chad Harbach

#27. World Series MVP is a unique individual honor because with one exception - Bobby Richardson won 1960 World Series MVP honors for the Yankees, but the Pittsburgh Pirates won the Series that year - by virtue of winning the award you guarantee your teammates have won a ring.

Tucker Elliot

#28. I played on the 2001 team, the team that won the most games in the history of Major League Baseball and also I played on one of the worst teams of Major League Baseball.

Ichiro Suzuki

#29. The Indians franchise is more than a century old. It's been called the Blues, the Bronchos, and the Naps. It's also been called a lot worse during hard times when the team wasn't winning.

Tucker Elliot

#30. Baseball and American football and hockey are all ahead because they have a history. The MLS is kind of new. So hopefully, in time, and with players coming and trying to develop the game, and the U.S. team also doing well - at the last World Cup, they finished above England and created some buzz.

Thierry Henry

#31. It is the same game that Moonlight Graham played in 1905. It is a living part of history, like calico dresses, stone crockery, and threshing crews eating at outdoor tables. It continually reminds us of what was, like an Indian-head penny in a handful of new coins.

W.P. Kinsella

#32. I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history..

Willem De Kooning

#33. I went to college to be a jock and to play on the baseball team. And then, I got cut and realized that that was it for that. I was really small. The other guys were really big, on that team. I was a bit of a theater nerd, and I was an art history major.

Charlie Day

#34. If you watch the history of baseball, teams come back, and sometimes they could have come back, but they give in or give up.

Tony La Russa

#35. The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

Bernard Malamud

#36. The best word to describe Albert Belle during the mid-1990s is "prolific." The man could flat hit.

Tucker Elliot