Dan Shaughnessy Quotations

What I like best about baseball is the continuity. Generation after generation can follow the game and get the same satisfactions year after year and bring to it the same interest and spirit. I want to take that with me into the next century.

When you ten, you know more about your team than you ever will know again.

Defensively the Red Sox are a lot like Stonehenge. They are old, they don't move, and no one is certain why they are positioned the way they are.

Given up for dead a few years ago, Detroit has survived and appears to be coming back the way Cleveland and Baltimore and Pittsburgh came back.

And more of that should be a concern for Florida.

This is going be the greatest. My kids are going. It's really a thrill that they're having (the All-Star Game) here. The whole town's charged up.

This is going be the greatest, ... My kids are going. It's really a thrill that they're having (the All-Star Game) here. The whole town's charged up.

There's populist movements of groups of zealot fans who want to preserve it, ... But the Red Sox are a private business and it's their house, really. They can do what they choose to do with it.

It's the place where your father was baptized and you go there and get a chill, ... A tremendous amount of people tell me their stories about first time walking in and this expansive vast of green in front of them. It's often been compared to 'The Wizard of Oz' scene when it switches to color. That's the emotion for a lot of people.