“Bruce Sutter and his new pitch, the split finger fastball, fascinate the manager of the Cuban national teams. 'We must find out about this new weapon,' he said. 'Are the American hitters plotting to murder him?” — 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
Baseball has traditionally possessed a wonderful lack of seriousness. The game's best player, Babe Ruth, was a Rabelaisian fat man, and its most loved… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
Quarterbacks have to ask the crowd to quiet down. Pitchers never do. — 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. The other… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
