Just in time for Baseball’s All Star Game next Tuesday, it’s good to get a foreigner’s view of the National Pastime.  Irishman George Bernard Shaw had the following observations after attending a ball game in New York.

 

“As I left the ground one of my courteous hosts expressed a hope that I would come again.  When a man asks you to come and see baseball played twice it sets you asking yourself why you want to see it played once.  That is a totally unanswerable question.  It is a mad world.  But I will not deny that I enjoyed the afternoon.  I may have the makings of a fan in me for all I know.”

 

“Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.”

 

“Who is this Baby Ruth?  And what does she do?”

 

 

Taken from Baseball’s Greatest Quotations, by Paul Dickson