Quotes About Ballparks

#1. Baseball's postseason shifts from game to game because of starting pitchers and the geography of the ballparks.

George Vecsey

#2. I don't like to compare clubs or players from way back. It's different today. Your ballparks are better. In the days when I played, we had eight teams in each league. Now you have more.

Red Schoendienst

#3. All the ballparks and the big crowds have a certain mystique. You feel attached, permanently wedded to the sounds that ring out, to the fans chanting your name, even when there are only four or five thousand in the stands on a Wednesday afternoon.

Mickey Mantle

#4. When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.

Bill Veeck

#5. These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don't have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks.

Jimmy Buffett

#6. I wish that every player could feel what I've felt in visiting ballparks. The receptions I've received, it's blown me away. It's absolutely remarkable.

Mark McGwire

#7. A brick is a biographical film in which a young orphan brick from the wrong side of the track grows up to be one of the most important bricks in all brick kind, as it is now quite literally the cornerstone of one of America's greatest ballparks.(Fenway)

Nicole McKay

#8. The ballparks have gotten too crowded. That's why nobody goes to see the game anymore.

Yogi Berra

#9. Decades after a person has stopped collecting bubble gum cards, he can still discover himself collecting ballparks ... their smells, their special seasons, their moods.

Thomas Boswell

#10. I enjoy coming to the ballpark every day. I don't go to work. I come here to play.

Scott Rolen

#11. O most delicate fiend!
Who is't can read a woman? Is there more?

William Shakespeare

#12. The Crawfords played everywhere, in every ballpark. And we won, won like we invented the game.

Satchel Paige

#13. One thing about ground balls: they don't go out of the ballpark.

Tim McCarver

#14. Money is the seed of money.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#15. Someone once wrote that in between the lives we lead and the lives we fantasize about living is the place in our heads where most of us actually live.

Kim Gordon

#16. Within the last few months feelings had been stirred in me so much more potent than any they could raise - pains and pleasures so much more acute and exquisite had been excited than any it was in their power to inflict or bestow.

Charlotte Bronte

#17. Man needs bread and hyacinths: one to feed the body, and one to feed the soul.

Sharon Creech

#18. My name is only an anagram of toilets.

T. S. Eliot

#19. [B]aseball is diffracted by the town and ballpark where it is played ... Does baseball, like a liquid, take the shape of its container?

Thomas Boswell

#20. You can't enter the Olympics unless you do your routine to get in shape for it. The idea of going out on stage on a tour without having prepped for it would be suicide, literally.

Paul Stanley

#21. I deserve all the love you can spare me. And I want a lot more than I deserve.

Dashiell Hammett