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Roger Angell Quotes: "I felt what I almost always feel when I am watching a ballgame: Just for those two or three hours, there is really no place I would rather be."

I felt what I almost always feel when I am watching a ballgame: Just for those two or three hours, there is really no place I would rather be.



Roger Angell Quotes: "Writing is hard, even for authors who do it all the time."

Writing is hard, even for authors who do it all the time.




Roger Angell Quotes: "The best defense against partisanship is expertise."

The best defense against partisanship is expertise.



Roger Angell Quotes: "I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it."

I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.




Roger Angell Quotes: "The great thing about catchers is that they do a lot of different things, and they're basically overlooked."

The great thing about catchers is that they do a lot of different things, and they're basically overlooked.



Roger Angell Quotes: "Life is tough and brimming with loss, and the most we can do about it is to glimpse ourselves clear now and then, and find out what we feel about familiar scenes and recurring faces this time around."

Life is tough and brimming with loss, and the most we can do about it is to glimpse ourselves clear now and then, and find out what we feel about familiar scenes and recurring faces this time around.



Roger Angell Quotes: "What really makes baseball so hard is it's retributive capacity for disaster if the smallest thing is done wrong, and the invisible presence of defeat that attends every game."

What really makes baseball so hard is it's retributive capacity for disaster if the smallest thing is done wrong, and the invisible presence of defeat that attends every game.




Roger Angell Quotes: "Baseball’s absolute unpredictability makes amateurs of us all."

Baseball’s absolute unpredictability makes amateurs of us all.



Roger Angell Quotes: "I think I wrote once that baseball in many ways is very much like reading. I said there are more bad books than bad ballgames, or maybe it was the other way around. I can't remember."

I think I wrote once that baseball in many ways is very much like reading. I said there are more bad books than bad ballgames, or maybe it was the other way around. I can't remember.



Roger Angell Quotes: "Those who live by the wall must die by the wall."

Those who live by the wall must die by the wall.



Roger Angell Quotes: "We are all writers and readers as well as communicators with the need at times to please and satisfy ourselves with the clear and almost perfect thought."

We are all writers and readers as well as communicators with the need at times to please and satisfy ourselves with the clear and almost perfect thought.



Roger Angell Quotes: "Our stories about our own lives are a form of fiction, I began to see and become more insistent as we grow older, even as we try to make them come out in some other way."

Our stories about our own lives are a form of fiction, I began to see and become more insistent as we grow older, even as we try to make them come out in some other way.




Roger Angell Quotes: "I've been lucky. I've met a lot of baseball people, and I've learned to value people who talk - people who talk well and in long sentences and even long paragraphs."

I've been lucky. I've met a lot of baseball people, and I've learned to value people who talk - people who talk well and in long sentences and even long paragraphs.



Roger Angell Quotes: "Everyone knows the best volume of the encyclopedia is the one with ships-S."

Everyone knows the best volume of the encyclopedia is the one with ships-S.