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> [“The fearful happenings of the second game need not be lingered over, being now as well known as the circumstances surrounding the fall of Troy. Until the gods began their heavy-handed meddling, it was a fine, fast game, with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-angell/the-fearful-happenings-of-the-second-game-need-not-be-lingered-over/)

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

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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/)

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

> [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/)

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

> [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/)

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

> [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/)

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

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

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

> [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/)

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

> [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/)

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

> [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/)

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

> [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/)

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

> [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/)

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

> [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/)

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

> [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/)

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

> [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/)

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

> [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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