American Baseball

Famous quotes containing the words american and/or baseball:

“I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

“How, in one short century, has this ersatz sport so strangled the consciousness of the country in the grip of its flabby tentacles that the mention of women’s baseball gets no reaction other than blank amazement?”
—Darlene Mehrer, As quoted in Women in Baseball. Ch. 6, by Gai Ingham Berlage (1994)