Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.

I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.

Baseball is a game of inches.

It was all I lived for, to play baseball.

Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.

If my uniform doesn't get dirty, I haven't done anything in the baseball game.