When you fall in love with golf, you seldom fall easy. It's obsession at first sight. — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
When you fall in love with golf, you seldom fall easy. Itʹs obsession at first sight. — 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
