Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball like the odor that follows an automobile.

I went through baseball as 'a player to be named later.'

Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

No one ever asked what was my relationship with Bart Giamatti. We used to talk about baseball a lot as a player and a commissioner just talk about the game what could we do to help the game where's the game going he was pretty good.

It's such a beautiful sport with no politics involved no color no class. Only as a youngster can you play and as a pro can you win. The game has kept me young involved and excited and for me to be up here with gems of baseball.

I was looking for something like baseball where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.

I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.

Most movies suck even the independent ones. Hollywood is like baseball: Hit three good ones out of 10 and you're a Hall of Famer.

I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.

My mom she wasn't like a baseball mother who knew everything about the game. She just wanted me to be happy with what I was doing.

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

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.

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion a screwball can be a pitch or a person stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.

The fundamentals of baseball haven't changed but how we can teach those fundamentals has. With an e-book learning can be more rewarding and fun.

It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.

I love sharing my knowledge of hitting with others. Now coaches and players at all levels can learn my systematic approach to hitting a baseball with more consistency mental strength and accuracy.

If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge and if he's good the older he gets the better he writes.

That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit.

For many in baseball September is a month of stark contrast with April when everyone had dared to hope. If baseball is a lot like life as pundits declare it is because life is more about losing than winning.

Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages home runs errors ERAs win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way.

Baseball is like driving it's the one who gets home safely that counts.