Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes that baseball, often viewed as just a game, is rich with significance and depth.
George Will's quote challenges the perception that baseball trivia lacks importance, suggesting instead that every aspect of the game, even seemingly minor details, holds considerable value and contributes to the overall narrative and culture of baseball. It highlights the passion and complexity that fans and analysts find in the sport, arguing that what may appear trivial is actually an integral part of understanding and appreciating the game.
In practice
During a baseball seminar, a speaker could use this quote to emphasize the depth of statistics in understanding the game.
The problem with intelligent-design theory, is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable. Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it is not a testable hypothesis. Hence it is not a scientific but a creedal tenet - a matter of faith, unsuited to a public school's science curriculum.
The cultivation - even celebration - of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today's culture of complaint.
Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences.
The civil forfeiture law - if something so devoid of due process can be dignified as law - is an incentive for perverse behavior: Predatory government agencies get to pocket the proceeds from property they seize from Americans without even charging them with, let alone convicting them of, crimes. Criminals are treated better than this because they lose the fruits of their criminality only after being convicted.
Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?
The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of america is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.
When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we've really and truly arrived. Parity at last!
In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.
I don't need to come back to Wimbledon every year because I can't live without it. I'd be totally cool without tennis.
Tennis was never work for me, tennis was fun. And the tougher the battle and the longer the match, the more fun I had.
I used to tease Joe Louis by reminding him that I was the greatest of all time. But Joe Louis was the greatest heavyweight fighter ever.
I'm just a ballplayer with one ambition, and that is to give all I've got to help my ball club win. I've never played any other way.
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