Quotable for Spring

In honor of the opening of the baseball season, I offer a series of baseball related quotes.

Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical.
— Yogi Berra (1925 – )

Baseball is a skilled game. It’s America’s game — it, and high taxes.
— Will Rogers (1879 – 1935)

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
— H. L. Mencken (1880 – 1956)

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
— George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950)

If the fans don’t wanna come out to the ballpark, no one can stop ’em.
— Yogi Berra (1925 – )

Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it’s open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.
— Dave Barry (1947 – )