Quotes About Ballparks

In the old days, you know, they didn't have batting cages. And in most ball parks, they only had one runway to the dugout.

Baseball's postseason shifts from game to game because of starting pitchers and the geography of the ballparks.

Ball parks are smaller and baseballs are livelier. They've practically got pitchers wearing straitjackets. Bah! They still allow the knuckleball, and that is three times as hard to control.

Lots of ballplayers have their own personal music blasted by the sound systems in modern ball parks.

For generations, minor-league baseball has been seen as the scrappier, sometimes seedier, counterpart to its big-league sibling. Games are often cloaked in strange and sometimes awkward theme nights. Some of the mascots are ragged or downright bizarre. The ballparks are smaller and filled with fewer fans.

I didn't like The Astrodome or any of the Astro-Turf fields. Probably my worst ballpark was The Met in Minnesota; I hated that place. I was so glad when they tore that place down, you have no idea.

Things were changing fast by that time, women were beginning to come to the ball parks. We had to stop cussing.