It's a mere moment in a man's life between the All-Star Game and an old timer's game. - Vin Scully

It's a passing of a great American tradition. It is sad. I really and truly feel that. It will leave a vast window, to use a Washington word, where people will not get Major League Baseball and I think that's a tragedy.

"High (drive/fly ball) into (left/center/etc.) field, and deep. Back goes (fielder's name), a-way back, it's gone!" (Or "… to the [warning] track, to the [fence/wall], gone!")

(Roberto) Clemente could field the ball in New York and throw out a guy in Pennsylvania.