“Monday, n. In Christian countries, the day after the baseball game.”

— Ambrose Bierce, book The Devil's Dictionary

The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

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American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabu… 1842–1914

Roger Kahn (1927–2020) American baseball writer

Source: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 1, The Trolley Car That Ran By Ebbets Field, p. 9

“One of the legendary broadcasters of our game. His distinct voice was a comfort to a generation of baseball fans in New England and throughout the country.”

Bud Selig (1934) American baseball executive

“The fundamental truth: a baseball game is nothing but a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the cadence of a summer day.”

Michael Chabon book Summerland

Source: Summerland

“Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics. You "take in" a baseball game, something odd to say about a football or basketball game, with the clock running and the bodies flying.”

Charles Krauthammer (1950–2018) American journalist

2010s, 2010, The joys of losing (2010)

“I said: "Baseball is the hurrah game of the republic!"”

Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist

He was hilarious: "That's beautiful: the hurrah game! well — it's our game: that's the chief fact in connection with it: America's game: has the snap, go fling, of the American atmosphere — belongs as much to our institutions, fits into them as significantly, as our constitutions, laws: is just as important in the sum total of our historic life."
Conversation with Whitman (4 July 1889) as quoted in With Walt Whitman in Camden (1906) by Horace Traubel, Vol. IV