“I don’t love baseball. I don’t love most of today’s players. I don’t
love the owners. I do love, however, the baseball that is in the heads of
baseball fans. I love the dreams of glory of 10-year-olds, the reminiscences
of 70-year-olds. The greatest baseball arena is in our heads, what we bring
to the games, to the telecasts, to reading newspaper reports.”