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 that don’t function well. Those parts of us that are sad or depressed—not every day. They can really use baseball. It isn't just the child in a wheelchair or the shut-in senior citizen listening to the radio that needs the game. There’s part of us, part of everybody who’s a baseball fan, who needs the game at that level.
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
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
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
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…
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
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 …
There is no substitute for excellence. Not even success. - Thomas Boswell
There is no substitute for excellence. Not even success.
Baseball means Spring's Here. Football means Winter's Coming. - Thomas Boswell
Baseball means Spring's Here. Football means Winter's Coming.
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 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… - 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…
Decades after a person has stopped collecting bubble gum cards, he can still discover himself collecting ballparks... their smells, their special sea… - Thomas Boswell
Decades after a person has stopped collecting bubble gum cards, he can still discover himself collecting ballparks... their smells, their special sea…
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
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…
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