Best Baseball History Quotes

"Domingo Hermon has pitched a perfect game for the fourth time in the history of the New York Yankees."

"Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Babe Ruth - my top three."

"Steve Carlton, Hall of Famer, big ol' lefty from the Phillies."

"The Chicago Cubs curse comes from 1945 when a man named Bill Sionis, nicknamed billy goat - great nickname."

"It will be a year full of feels and nostalgia that hasn't been experienced since Derek Jeter's ego stroke heard round the world."

"Bonds earned 14 All-Star selections and a record seven NL MVP awards."

"Barry bonds will forever be one of baseball's greatest legends."

"With this team of Misfit yet consistent players, the Oakland A's over the 2002 season would go on to win 20 consecutive wins."

"Clinching the record for most MLB Seasons played by a Mexican player."

"Willie Mays hit 660 homers but if you give him the 54 more homers he might have hit if he hadn't been so curiously drafted in 1952 Willie Mays finishes with 714 home runs."

"CC Sabathia has been one of the best left-handed pitchers Major League Baseball has ever seen."

"There's a reason on April 15th every year that we all wear number 42, and it's because Jackie Robinson did something that nobody else at the time could do."

"Baseball historians estimate that he hit more than 800 total home runs, and that includes crushing a ball 600 feet during a 1941 winter league game in Puerto Rico."

"Despite once being described as a rich lazy chainsmoker, Chapman has overcome an entire government, a fraudulent money manager, and a potentially life-threatening injury to become one of the most dominant pitchers in baseball."

"Jacob deGrom is having the greatest stretch of a starting pitcher ever."

"Congratulations, you got the Mark McGwire 1985 Tops Rookie Card."

"Whatever success I've hidden professional baseball is simply because Jackie Robinson paved the way for me to get where I am today."

"It's like deja vu all over again billy martin has been named the manager of the new york yankees for not the first not the second not the third not the fourth but the fifth time."

"This Honus Wagner card is based off of the most rare baseball card in the world."

"Pedro today easily ranks as one of the most imposing power pitchers in the history of the game."

"In the history of baseball, Pujols’s rookie season ranks highly in a variety of statistical categories."

"He is the earliest pitcher who I'm confident would have been a star if he played in the modern game and he revolutionized how pitchers pitched."

"Jeter never got ejected, so he just became the first captain since Mattingly in 1994 to get tossed out of a game."

"The Bay Area has a long proud history of professional baseball."

"Contrary to popular belief, baseball did not lose its virginity in 1919."

"Black baseball Talent was never wasted it blossomed in Negro Leagues."

"Thank God we had the Negro Leagues to give guys like me a chance."

"Josh Gibson's life is a story of a man born too soon, his abilities eroded before he ever got a chance to play in the major leagues."

"1979, the year of the Pittsburgh Pirates, world champions in a city of Champions and baseball's first family."

"The summer's evening in 1924 in Lynn, Massachusetts, perhaps the most significant game in the long history of baseball was played. It wasn't the pitching that was so extraordinary, nor the hitting and fielding. What made this game truly historic was the time of day—nightfall."

"The early 2000s was one of the most interesting and exciting times to be a baseball fan."

"We are the longest running double play combination in the history of baseball."

"Can the Mets win the '69 pennant? That's the question. You got to believe."

"Cleveland rocks the story of the 1995 Indians."

"The Expos played their first ever game on April 8, 1969, defeating the New York Mets 11 to 10 at Shea Stadium."

"The holy grail of baseball cards, the T206 Honus Wagner."

"This may be one of the most famous baseball cards of the 1990s and it remains one of the most popular."

"The Giants don't have to be your favorite dynasty ever, or even one of them, but they do deserve to be counted as one of the greatest of all time."

"Baseball's Iron Man, 2,632 consecutive games played, and a home run in the 72nd All-Star game in Seattle."

"For 88 years, New Englanders have been treated to home run moments to cherish forever."

"The New York Yankees, professional sports' most storied, gloried franchise, has once again scaled baseball's Everest."

"Derek Jeter homers to tie the game, and there it is, hit number 3,000!"

"We're back in Toronto, and 50,000 plus hope to see the Blue Jays beat the A's and make history."

"Jody will live forever, particularly here in Yankee Stadium."

"I hit the first grand slam in all-star game history."

"This has never happened in the history of baseball."

"Rogers Hornsby captured seven batting titles, including six in a row, averaging better than .400 three times."

"11-time batting champion, .367 batting average lifetime, quite an accomplishment."

"When you have to celebrate 108 years in waiting, you really go all out."

"Everything about Fenway Park is unique: the Green Monster, the unusual outfield seating, and the dimensions."

"An extraordinary performance from Anibal Sanchez, seven and two-thirds of no-hit ball in game one of this NLCS."

"The longest Division Series game is 15 innings, that was the great one between Seattle and the Yankees in '95."

"The 30 for 30, 'Once Upon a Time in Queens,' about the '86 Mets is everything I love about the Mets organization."

"Francisco Cabrera, who has not appeared in the World Series, with a two-run single with two outs in the ninth, put the Braves into the World Series."

"The 1990 World Series could have been baseball's adaptation of David versus Goliath."

"I was at the mall there, at Caesars, and I bought two pictures, one was him sliding into third base headfirst in the 1975 World Series where they beat the Boston Red Sox."

"That rally did way more than just winning a game for the Cubs and their fans."

"It gets me excited about some of the older kind of history of baseball."

"I don't know if anybody's ever going to break Bonds' record, but I would say it's more attainable than somebody like Cy Young's career wins record."