What Baseball is.....

Baseball is the President tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm. A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout - that's baseball. So is the big, fat guy with a bulbous nose running home one of his 714 home runs. There's a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus Wagner hit a triple in Pittsburgh 46 years …

…consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this Earth." Baseball is cigar smoke, hot-roasted peanuts, The Sporting News, Ladies Day, Down in Front, "Take Me Out to the Ball Game," and "The Star Spangled Banner." Baseball is a tongue-tied kid from Georgia growing up to be an announcer and praising the Lord for showing him the way to Cooperstown. This is a game for America. Still a game for America - this baseball!