Born to an age where horror has become commonplace, where tragedy has, by its monotonous repetition, become a parody of sorrow, we need to fence off ….

When life is suddenly more serious more of the time, there is also more need for it to be fun at least some of the time. That's why my family will be….

Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form..

Quarterbacks have to ask the crowd to quiet down. Pitchers never do..

An almost inexorable baseball law: A Red Sox ship with a single leak will always find a way to sink No team is worshipped with such a perverse sense ….

There is no substitute for excellence. Not even success..

As every golfer knows, no one ever lost his mind over one shot. It is rather the gradual process of shot after shot watching your score go to tatters….

Baseball is really two sports -- the summer game and the autumn game. One is the leisurely pastime of our national mythology. The other is not so gen….

Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it's beginning to seem that way. We're rea….

Baseball means Spring's Here. Football means Winter's Coming..

I think baseball is a great support to people who have emotional voids, gaps, emotional difficulties. That is to say: all of us. Those parts of us th….

All baseball fans can be divided into two groups: those who come to batting practice and the others. Only those in the first category have much chanc….

Decades after a person has stopped collecting bubble gum cards, he can still discover himself collecting ballparks... their smells, their special sea….

I may be the only golfer never to have broken a single putter, if you don't count the one I twisted into a loop and threw into a bush..

Some things cannont possibly happen, because they are both too improbable and too perfect. The U.S. hockey team cannot beat the Russians in the 1980 ….

Any person claiming to be a baseball fan who does not also claim to have invented the quickest, simplest and most complete method of keeping score pr….

Baseball has traditionally possessed a wonderful lack of seriousness. The game's best player, Babe Ruth, was a Rabelaisian fat man, and its most love….

Football is played best full of adrenaline and anger. Moderation seldom finds a place. Almost every act of baseball is a blending of effort and contr….

Conversation is the blood of baseball. It flows through the game, an invigorating system of anecdotes. Ballplayers are tale tellers who have polished….

A major golf tournament is 40,000 sadists watching 144 masochists..

Cheating is baseball's oldest profession. No other game is so rich in skullduggery, so suited to it or so proud of it..