American history and the history of baseball are bound up together: our racial politics can be described and traced through it. — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“To reach a ball he has never reached before, to extend himself to the very limits of his range, and then a… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“Putting Henry at shortstop - it was like taking a painting that had been shoved in a closet and hanging it in… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
But baseball was different... You stood and waited and tried to still your mind. When your moment came, you had to be… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
I was a ballplayer, but only for a limited time. I grew up playing in Wisconsin. It's a very sports-centric part of… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“Why would anyone want to fight Henry?" Loondorf looked hurt. "Because he's a ballplayer." "So?" "So he's a baller. He's got cash,… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
Baseball is a team game but, at the same time, it's a very lonely game: unlike in soccer or basketball, where players… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“Baseball was an art, but to excel at it you had to become a machine. It didn't matter how beautifully you performed… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“Owen," Henry said excitedly, "I think Coach wants you to hit for Meccini." Owen closed The Voyage of the Beagle , on… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“Baseball, in its quiet way, was an extravagantly harrowing game. Football, basketball, hockey, lacrosse--these were melee sports. You could make yourself useful… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“For Schwartz this formed the paradox at the heart of baseball, or football, or any other sport. You loved it because you… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“But baseball was different. Schwartz thought of it as Homeric - not a scrum but a series of isolated contests. Batter versus… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
Other things awaited. It was good to be young and to know it for once. So much unfolding to do. — Chad Harbach Copy Share
“The problem, like most problems in life, probably had to do with his footwork.” — Chad Harbach Copy Share
There are no whys in a person's life, and very few hows. In the end, in search of useful wisdom, you could only come… — Chad Harbach Copy Share
“He wished that college required you to use your body more, forced you to remember that life was lived in four dimensions.” — Chad Harbach Copy Share
“The girl-women scampered around a beach house in various states of preparative undress, wriggled into sundresses, shook out their hair…They possessed a veneer of… — Chad Harbach Copy Share
“After those four years, he returned to the Midwest. He'd turned twenty-five, the Age of Unfolding, and it was time to write a novel,… — Chad Harbach Copy Share
“It dawned on him—as it hadn’t before; he was dense, he was slow—that his parents were five hundred miles away. They could make him… — Chad Harbach Copy Share
“Though his classmates supposedly hailed form "all fifty states, Guam, and twenty-two foreign lands," as President Affenlight said in his convocation address, they all… — Chad Harbach Copy Share
A lot of my close friends had tolerantly washed their hands of the whole idea of me writing a book. They had said to… — Chad Harbach Copy Share
“Ella was nineteen," Pella interrupted to say. She hated the namelessness of women in stories, as if they lived and died so that men… — Chad Harbach Copy Share
“Neither had said so, but she could tell. Unless she was just paranoid, living in her head again, but you always lived in your… — Chad Harbach Copy Share
I feel like every time I start up, it's like a truck you have to get into 15th gear, so you very solely crank… — Chad Harbach Copy Share
“It was easy enough to write a sentence, but if you were going to create a work of art, the way Melville had, each… — Chad Harbach Copy Share
“Life was long, unless you died, and he didn’t intend to spend the next sixty years talking about the last twenty-two.” — Chad Harbach Copy Share
