It needs to be said, over and over again, that Stan the Man was voted by 'The Sporting News' as the best baseball player of the postwar decade, from 1946 through 1955.
Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.
That's what Major League Baseball's steroid scandal was all about, the hidden harm in competitive sports that sends the wrong message to the young.
Sadly, this problem of steroid use is not isolated to baseball.
Despite reforms in steroid control, serious problems still occur in and out of baseball.
In regards to steroids, I think we're all to blame, all of baseball. I never realized how far-reaching this problem has been.
Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.
I felt that I'd rather be lucky than good. That's the aspect I kept bringing to baseball. The more superstitions I had, the better off I'd have of finding more luck.
I haven't been really superstitious once I left baseball, actually.
Baseball is a team game.
Baseball is a team sport played by individuals for themselves.
I was not good at team sports, I have to say. I'm quite good at individual sports, but I was not good at team sports, so I wasn't good at baseball and football.
Any teammate of mine that had a kid and a boy that was capable of playing baseball, I think I set a terrific example of 'Don't do this' and 'Don't do that.' And that's one of the things that I'm most proud of.
Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders.
Baseball has changed dramatically since I began my tenure with the Yankees.
I really love the togetherness in baseball. That's a real true love.
I only had one player in my 33 years of sports that couldn't be traded. He wore No. 23 - and 45 when he played baseball.
Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.
Umpires are supposed to be non-confrontational - they're supposed to uphold the peace on the baseball field.
Given that I often wear shorts with a T-shirt, baseball cap, and backpack most days, a crew-neck shirt gives me the appearance of an undercover cop on the way to a sting operation at a summer camp.
