A good umpire, like a good FBI agent, is never noticed if he is doing his job. — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
“Familiarity, and a few dozen cheap flyballs off the Monster, breed contempt.” — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
Baseball is really two sports -- the summer game and the autumn game. One is the leisurely pastime of our national mythology.… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
“[B]aseball is diffracted by the town and ballpark where it is played... Does baseball, like a liquid, take the shape of its… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
Decades after a person has stopped collecting bubble gum cards, he can still discover himself collecting ballparks... their smells, their special seasons,… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
“Almost without exception, they are men who dreamed of athletic heroism as children; becoming umpires was their compromise with their own lack… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
A narrative voice with conviction is often hard to find. But not in baseball. The minors teach two lost American arts: how… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form. — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
Any person claiming to be a baseball fan who does not also claim to have invented the quickest, simplest and most complete… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood. — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
Conversation is the blood of baseball. It flows through the game, an invigorating system of anecdotes. Ballplayers are tale tellers who have… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
“The crowd and its team had finally understood that in games, as in many things, the ending, the final score, is only… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
The best place to catch a baseball hit by (Mark) McGwire is definitely not within the confines of the playing field, or… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
“The naked pinch hitter takes only one thing to the plate: his raw, and somewhat irrational, confidence in himself. That this confidence… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
Baseball is the religion that worships the obvious and gives thanks that things are exactly as they seem. Instead of celebrating mysteries,… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
Football is played best full of adrenaline and anger. Moderation seldom finds a place. Almost every act of baseball is a blending… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
“Bruce Sutter and his new pitch, the split finger fastball, fascinate the manager of the Cuban national teams. 'We must find out… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it's beginning to seem that way.… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
Terrorism drives out all normal human activity before it, defining life in its own sick terms, if it can. So, a baseball… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
I think baseball is a great support to people who have emotional voids, gaps, emotional difficulties. That is to say: all of… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
In and of itself, sports may be trivial, but as a symbol of the American way of life, it has enormous weight.… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
Cheating is baseball's oldest profession. No other game is so rich in skullduggery, so suited to it or so proud of it. — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
An almost inexorable baseball law: A Red Sox ship with a single leak will always find a way to sink No team… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
Baseball has traditionally possessed a wonderful lack of seriousness. The game's best player, Babe Ruth, was a Rabelaisian fat man, and its… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
All baseball fans can be divided into two groups: those who come to batting practice and the others. Only those in the… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
An almost inexorable baseball law: A Red Sox ship with a single leak will always find a way to sink No team is worshipped… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
Football is played best full of adrenaline and anger. Moderation seldom finds a place. Almost every act of baseball is a blending of effort… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
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,… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
Some things cannont possibly happen, because they are both too improbable and too perfect. The U.S. hockey team cannot beat the Russians in the… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
“What most people want to keep under wraps (from reporters) is trivial: petty jealousies, professional feuds, etc. By contrast, most of the things they… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
Conversation is the blood of baseball. It flows through the game, an invigorating system of anecdotes. Ballplayers are tale tellers who have polished their… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
“Familiarity, and a few dozen cheap flyballs off the Monster, breed contempt.” — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
I think baseball is a great support to people who have emotional voids, gaps, emotional difficulties. That is to say: all of us. Those… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it's beginning to seem that way. We're reaching… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
Born to an age where horror has become commonplace, where tragedy has, by its monotonous repetition, become a parody of sorrow, we need to… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
In and of itself, sports may be trivial, but as a symbol of the American way of life, it has enormous weight. We are… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form. — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
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