Famous quotes containing the words american and/or baseball:
“In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.”
—Lionel Trilling (19051975)
“One of the baseball-team owners approached me and said: If you become baseball commissioner, youre going to have to deal with 28 big egos, and I said, For me, thats a 72% reduction.”
—George Mitchell (b. 1933)