"I don't love baseball.
I don't love most of today's players.
I don't love the owners.
I do love, however, the baseball that is in the heads of baseball fans.
I love the dreams of glory of 10-year-olds, the reminiscences of 70-year-olds.
The greatest baseball arena is in our heads,
what we bring to the games, to the telecasts, to reading newspaper reports."

~ Stan Isaacs, "Diamond-Studded Memories," Newsday, 9 April 1990