It's not in baseball's interest or the players' interest to be taking this stance. It's the people's game.

It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.

Records set now have to have some sort of a cloud and might be tainted by what [the players] have been taking, if they've in fact been taking it. But we don't know what they're taking. We still need a lot more facts.

[Then Reds owner] Marge Schott , who was cheap, didn't like the players or the manager calling long distance from the clubhouse,

It's tempting, because as one senator said to me, 'We know if we invite baseball down, we'll draw a crowd'.

The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.