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…

- Thomas Boswell

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 …

- Thomas Boswell

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…

- Thomas Boswell

There is no substitute for excellence. Not even success.

- Thomas Boswell

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

- Thomas Boswell

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…

- Thomas Boswell

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…

- Thomas Boswell

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

- Thomas Boswell

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…

- Thomas Boswell