Baseball Hall of Fame Balloting

Famous quotes containing the words baseball, hall and/or fame:

    “The salary cap ... will be accepted about the time the 13 original states restore the monarchy.”
    —Tom Reich, U.S. baseball agent. New York Times, p. 16B (August 11, 1994)

    “Sweet death, small son, our instrument
    Of immortality,
    Your cries and hungers document
    Our bodily decay.”
    —Donald Hall (b. 1928)

    “Today one does not hear much about him.... The fame of his likes circulates briskly but soon grows heavy and stale; and as for history it will limit his life story to the dash between two dates.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)