Quotes About National League

If I was going to make one rule change, I would bring the DH in the National League.

I just hope Sammy (Sosa) gets the attention he deserves. Not only has he hit sixty-two homers, but he has carried us. He is without doubt the MVP of the National League.

Why shouldn't we pitch to Babe Ruth? We pitch to better hitters in the National League.

I like that the pitcher hits. I think that my feeling is that everybody should play a position. In order to hit, you have to play a position. That's just my view of it. I feel that's more baseball, and the games are managed different. I enjoy the National League, how it's played.

Watching National League pitchers trying to hit or even bunt is depressing.

American League teams don't bunt very often. National League teams bunt a lot.

Davis, a lifetime .300 hitter who twice won the National League batting title, came over to the White Sox from the Mets in a major trade last winter ("Mets ckoo!")

When you talk about the American League, you think of Fenway. When you talk about the National League, you think of Wrigley and the fan base that they have in Chicago.

I was always interested in baseball. In fact, in my younger years, I played it in an amateur way. But up to the time when I became identified with the Yankees, I was a strong National League rooter.

The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor.

The Houston Astros are the youngest team in the National League if you judge by age.

I like the style of National League baseball. I like the different moves that have to be made. I like the fact that the No. 8 spot in the lineup can be one of the more challenging spots. It's a lot more strategy for that hitter and for the catcher sometimes with the pitcher coming up.

Personally yes I want our country to have one league. When it's going to be one league, which we all are hearing, it has to be abiding by AFC rules.

I aspire my country eventually has a league where all players play 50 games.

I think there's more of opportunity to win games in the National League than the American League because there are more decisions to make.

It's the same game. It's baseball. National League, American League. It's baseball. I just come here and try to do my thing. Do my work and help the team to win.

If you look at it long-term, I think eventually there will be a DH in the National League.