Thomas Boswell Quotes
More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.
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 chance of amounting to anything.
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 gentle.
Decades after a person has stopped collecting bubble gum cards, he can still discover himself collecting ballparks... their smells, their special seasons, their moods.
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 probably is a fraud.
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.
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 control; too much of either is fatal.
Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.
A narrative voice with conviction is often hard to find. But not in baseball. The minors teach two lost American arts: how to chew tobacco and how to tell a story.
When you fall in love with golf, you seldom fall easy. Itʹs obsession at first sight.
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 of fatality.
Of the big four, the PGA is the most fair and the least fun. Basically, it's just the US Open set up by nice, rather than nasty, fellows.
Cheating is baseball's oldest profession. No other game is so rich in skullduggery, so suited to it or so proud of it.