Mickey Rivers

•Alan Harmon, Los Angeles Express owner, explaining how the team's colors were chosen: "We took the silver from Detroit, the blue from Dallas and the burgundy from my daughter's blouse."

•Ken Singleton, Oriole outfielder, after visiting President Reagan to help kick off National Amateur Baseball Month: "I was glad to go because I'd never been to the White House, and I don't expect that I'll become...

Take a gander at Goose Gossage in mid-flight and you know why the Yankee pitcher is baseball's most feared reliever. His neck strains, his face contorts, his long arms and legs flail and his fastball comes blazing to...

Mickey Rivers often seems to speak no known tongue, but his bat is eloquent

•Mickey Rivers, Texas outfielder, explaining why he opposes an early-season players' strike: "There are more games in the second half than the first."