Trojan Baseball

The Great American Pastime

"...Next to religion, baseball has furnished a greater impact on American life than any other institution."
Herbert Hoover

"...There are two things I teach the boys that are all American. One's the good old flag and one's baseball."
Sports writer Tim Murnane, 1908

"Baseball is our national game."
Calvin Coolidge

"You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat."
Christy Mathewson

"You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too."
Roy Campanella

"There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best."
Joe DiMaggio

"Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of Earth."
Opening of Lou Gehrig's farewell address at Yankee Stadium, July 4,1939

"I want to be a baseball player who gave all he had to give."
Roberto Clemente

"It could be....It might be....It is! A home run!"
Broadcaster Harry Caray's signature call
 

"Baseball is a game that cannot be won, just played. It is way you play that determines who wins."
Scott Douglas, head coach of TSJC men's baseball team, 2006