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• We are and have been traveling along a fictitious prosperity for the last two or three years, and the sooner we step down the better it will be for the game and everybody concerned. Next season may not be so good for the owners. Good times have affected their heads and they are unconsciously doing baseball an almost irreparable injury by inflating the price on players as they have this year. There is likely to be a slump in baseball and then some of the owners will wish they had kept the strings tied to their pocketbooks. — American League President Ban Johnson, December 24, 1922.
• When [Scott] Boras talks to Tom Hicks, does he first have to enter a PIN? — Los Angeles Times sportswriter Mike DiGiovanna, on free agency negotiations subsequent to the 2006 Major League Baseball season betwixt the two, respectively a sports agent and the owner of the Texas Rangers, theretofore collective brokers of US$383 million in contracts
• If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy!, I hate to lose. — New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter, pictured at right, on winning