The Noiseboy Online

“You see, in the last fifteen years baseball has needed help. This is becoming a tired, predictable game. It is overexposed on television. It is moving too slowly to maintain a hold on this fast-moving era. And, probably worst of all, it has become so commercialized, and the people in it loaded with so many gimmicks, that it all reminds you of the front window of a cheap department store.”

—Jimmy Breslin, sportswriter, 1963