My dad talked a good game. [I'm as a] child got only the World Series on the radio. — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
Baseball games are like snowflakes and fingerprints, no two are ever alike. — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
[I] Played a little softball, but there was nowhere on the field it was safe for me to be. — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
Someone once described the pitching of a no-hit game as like catching lighting in a bottle. — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved. — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
It is hard to compare the eras, but Joe Jackson and Ty Cobb from the past, Sandy Koufax and Roger Clements from… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
After the strike, I lost interest. In reality, neither players nor owners care in the least about the fans. The greed of… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
I became exclusively an American League fan when they instituted the DH rule, and will remain so until the National League moves… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
1946, if my memory is correct. Harry "The Cat" Brecheen went against the Red Sox in Game 7. I stayed home to… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
America has been erased like a blackboard, only to be rebuilt and then erased again. But baseball has marked time while America… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
Baseball is meant to be a contemplative game. They play music to draw young people to the game. If young people can't… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
It is the same game that Moonlight Graham played in 1905. It is a living part of history, like calico dresses, stone… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
Praise the name of baseball. The word will set captives free. The word will open the eyes of the blind. The word… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
I think it is worse [in 2015] for a mid-list author such as myself. You either have to sell like Stephen King or go… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share
My dad talked a good game. [I'm as a] child got only the World Series on the radio. — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share
Discovered W. Somerset Maugham in about 5th grade. Didn't understand the plots, but loved the descriptions. — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share
Find something that thrills you, and when you finish reading it for enjoyment, read it again line by line, paragraph by paragraph to see… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share
Someone once described the pitching of a no-hit game as like catching lighting in a bottle. — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share
Praise the name of baseball. The word will set captives free. The word will open the eyes of the blind. The word will raise… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share
My intuition told me that it was the grass that was important.Now it glows parrot-green, cool as mint, soft as moss, lying there like… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share
[Mid-list writers are now] less greed on the part of both publishers and chain booksellers. It is easier for them to publish and sell… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share
At one time I'd been to every park except Baltimore and Houston, but can't even keep track of who plays where these days. — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share
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