“There is a progression of understanding vis-a-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. Which is exactly the way it should be, in the eyes of the amazingly small number of people who own and control the game, because it is this finely managed distance factor that accounts for the high-profit mystique that blew the sacred institution of baseball off its ''national pastime'' pedestal in less than fifteen years.” PeopleWayShouldYearsEyeGamesUnderstandingNumbersEmotionalFootballIntellectualBaseballAccountsInstitutionsSacredDistanceProfitFactorsFifteenVaryProgressionPedestalPastimeFifteen YearsSmall NumbersMystiquePro Football Book:The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time Source: The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time
“I get tired of hearing my ballplayers bellyache all the time. They should sit in the press box sometime and watch themselves play.” ShouldPlayWatchesBaseballPressesTiredBoxesHearing Author:Buzzie Bavasi
“I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be. So I painted only the ideal aspects of it - pictures in which there are no drunken slatterns or self-centered mothers... only foxy grandpas who played baseball with the kids and boys who fished from logs and got up circuses in the backyard.” IfsWorldShouldSelfKidsMotherBoysAspectIdealsDecidedBaseballIdealismCircusSelf CenteredBackyardsGrandpaIdeal World Author:Norman Rockwell
“Major League Baseball should retire Roberto Clemente's number, just like they did Jackie Robinson's.” ShouldNumbersMajorsBaseballMajorityLeagueRetiringJackieMajor LeagueMajor League Baseball Author:Carlos Beltran