Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.
Bob Lemon
Seven is more than a lucky number or a famous baseball player's uniform. It's the brain's natural shepherd, herding vast amounts of... →
Jacqueline Leo
We in the Negro leagues felt like we were contributing something to baseball, too, when we were playing. We played with a round ball, and we played... →
Buck Leonard
When I was a little boy, my dream was to play baseball and leave Cuba.
William Levy
Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.
Michael Lewis
The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons.
The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too.
The Oakland clubhouse is a wonderful place. A lot of these guys feel like rejects. They were rejects and they feel - they can tell you how baseball... →
My eight years in Detroit, obviously, were my most successful years managing. I think that Pittsburgh and Detroit are probably very, very similar. We... →
Jim Leyland
I grew up in Westlake Villiage, a suburb of L.A. There was a guy there who was a fighter and was like, 'I'll teach you to box.' I started... →
Jonathan Lipnicki