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I've always made the case that a baseball locker room is simply an extension of society. Every type of person you have in your large office environment is also represented in an MLB clubhouse.

It's just so much fun to relax and just play baseball for a living. It's a great time in my life. I'm never going to forget it, and it's very humbling.

Thrilling, thrilling to see yourself on a baseball card for the first time.

When I played Little League, I looked up to the big leaguers, too, and collected their baseball cards.

I probably would have never made it through college without baseball, so I'm thankful for that. I really am proud that I got to play on that level.

It was a breaking period for black people coming into baseball, and how many followed depended on Jackie's conduct. But that's not the case now. What and how I do doesn't mean nearly as much as what and how Jackie did.

Al Campanis made people finally understand what goes on behind closed doors - that there is racism in baseball.

I've never seen baseball advertise for a job, and I've never heard of whites applying for a job. I mean, there's an old boy network, and it's lily white.

In days of yore, Opening Day of the baseball season was special, signifying that spring had come at last. Today, however, Opening Day sort of dribbles into existence, and the spiritual start of spring now belongs to the Masters golf tournament, where the azaleas and magnolias and dogwood bloom.

Statues of sports stars are all the rage - especially in baseball.

In baseball, you can't tell the players without a scorecard, but in political commentary, you need a metaphor.

I played baseball growing up, second base, and then when I got to high school,it just didn't exist there.

At the end of the day, this is baseball. Everybody knows this game, how it can go well for a long time, go bad for a long time.

Baseball is just part of my life.

We live baseball. That's the thing: We live this game. We're passionate about it. I feel like it's just in our blood and it's been passed down through generations. We just love this game.

We come to the field with one mission. Go out there and play winning baseball.

Everybody should bring a little bit more to the postseason, and I feel like baseball - playing it that way - that is the right way to play this game.

I'm just a baseball player. Simple as that.

Baseball players get better by playing baseball.

This is baseball It's going to bring you up, it's going to bring you down. You just have to find a way to ride that wave.

I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.