"We-e-e-a-ah!" and likewise "Stri-i-ke tuh!". They're here today, both of them, and so is the baseball season of 1908. – Chicago Tribune The reign of bat and ball is supreme.- New York Times Another interminable off-season will draw mercifully to a close today when the first true rays of the summer sun pass over ball-fields and batter's boxes across the United States.