Of all the unusual things my father did in baseball, ... my favorite hands down was the exploding scoreboard.

“I’m for the dreamers. The only really important things in history have been started by the dreamers. They never know what can’t be done.”

There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.

Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.

Do you know where he got the idea? ... From a William Saroyan play, 'The Time of Your Life,' that he saw with my mother. Near the end of the play there is a pinball machine that goes off like crazy. Dad couldn't stop thinking about it.

Major League Baseball has created a Pete Rose purgatory, and that's where he is. And that's where he's always going to be. It's unfortunate that the commissioner's office has decided to allow that to be the reality. I don't think Pete would mind if they said 'No' to Pete. Pete wants them to go one way or the other and get him out of the void he's in.