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> [Friends of mine said later that they had been riveted by a postgame television close-up of Wade Boggs, sitting alone in the dugout with tears streaming down his face …. I suppose we should all try to find something better…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-angell/friends-of-mine-said-later-that-they-had-been-riveted-by-a-postgame/)

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## More by Roger Angell

> [Losing is the bane and bugbear of every professional athlete's existence, but in baseball the monster seems to hang closer than in other sports,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-angell/losing-is-the-bane-and-bugbear-of-every-professional-athlete-s/)

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> [We are all writers and readers as well as communicators with the need at times to please and satisfy ourselves with the clear and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-angell/we-are-all-writers-and-readers-as-well-as-communicators-with-the-need/)

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> [Life is tough and brimming with loss, and the most we can do about it is to glimpse ourselves clear now and then, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-angell/life-is-tough-and-brimming-with-loss-and-the-most-we-can-do-about-it/)

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> [Our stories about our own lives are a form of fiction, I began to see and become more insistent as we grow older, even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-angell/our-stories-about-our-own-lives-are-a-form-of-fiction-i-began-to-see/)

[Roger Angell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-angell/)

> [“my favorite urban flower, the baseball box score”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-angell/my-favorite-urban-flower-the-baseball-box-score/)

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> [Baseball’s absolute unpredictability makes amateurs of us all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-angell/baseball-s-absolute-unpredictability-makes-amateurs-of-us-all/)

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> [This was a new recognition that perfection is admirable but a trifle inhuman, and that a stumbling kind of semi-success can be much more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-angell/this-was-a-new-recognition-that-perfection-is-admirable-but-a-trifle/)

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> [Baseball's time is seamless and invisible, a bubble within which players move at exactly the same pace and rhythms as all their predecessors. This…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-angell/baseball-s-time-is-seamless-and-invisible-a-bubble-within-which/)

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> [I felt what I almost always feel when I am watching a ballgame: Just for those two or three hours, there is really no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-angell/i-felt-what-i-almost-always-feel-when-i-am-watching-a-ballgame-just/)

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> [I don’t read Scripture and cling to no life precepts, except perhaps to Walter Cronkite’s rules for old men, which he did not deliver…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-angell/i-don-t-read-scripture-and-cling-to-no-life-precepts-except-perhaps/)

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> [Sports are too much with us. Late and soon, sitting and watching - mostly watching on television - we lay waste our powers of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-angell/sports-are-too-much-with-us-late-and-soon-sitting-and-watching-mostly/)

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> [Friends of mine said later that they had been riveted by a postgame television close-up of Wade Boggs, sitting alone in the dugout with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-angell/friends-of-mine-said-later-that-they-had-been-riveted-by-a-postgame/)

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> [The press box at Wrigley Field in Chicago is an extended narrow shed, two rows deep, that is precariously bolted to the iron rafters…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-angell/the-press-box-at-wrigley-field-in-chicago-is-an-extended-narrow-shed/)

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> [The great thing about catchers is that they do a lot of different things, and they're basically overlooked.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-angell/the-great-thing-about-catchers-is-that-they-do-a-lot-of-different/)

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> [Any baseball is beautiful. No other small package comes as close to the ideal design and utility. It is a perfect object for a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-angell/any-baseball-is-beautiful-no-other-small-package-comes-as-close-to/)

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