Alvin Dark Baseball Quotations

Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.

In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that.

There are surprisingly few real students of the game in baseball; partly because everybody, my eighty-three year old grandmother included, thinks they learned all there was to know about it at puberty. Baseball is very beguiling that way.

Friendships are forgotten when the game begins.

Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a Communist.