--- title: "1 Think Baseball Quotes By Thomas Boswell" description: "1 Think Baseball quotes by Thomas Boswell. Plus more from Thomas Boswell and more Think Baseball sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b9d/thomas-boswell-16231_baseball_i-think-baseball-is-a-great-support-to-p_936717.jpg" --- > [I think baseball is a great support to people who have emotional voids, gaps, emotional difficulties. That is to say: all of us. Those parts of us that don’t function well. Those parts of us that are sad or depressed—not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-boswell/i-think-baseball-is-a-great-support-to-people-who-have-emotional/) [Thomas Boswell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-boswell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b9d/thomas-boswell-16231_baseball_i-think-baseball-is-a-great-support-to-p_936717.jpg) ## More by Thomas Boswell > [An almost inexorable baseball law: A Red Sox ship with a single leak will always find a way to sink No team is worshipped…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-boswell/an-almost-inexorable-baseball-law-a-red-sox-ship-with-a-single-leak/) [Thomas Boswell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-boswell/) > [Football is played best full of adrenaline and anger. Moderation seldom finds a place. Almost every act of baseball is a blending of effort…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-boswell/football-is-played-best-full-of-adrenaline-and-anger-moderation/) [Thomas Boswell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-boswell/) > [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-boswell/of-the-big-four-the-pga-is-the-most-fair-and-the-least-fun-basically/) [Thomas Boswell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-boswell/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-boswell/some-things-cannont-possibly-happen-because-they-are-both-too/) [Thomas Boswell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-boswell/) > [“What most people want to keep under wraps (from reporters) is trivial: petty jealousies, professional feuds, etc. By contrast, most of the things they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-boswell/what-most-people-want-to-keep-under-wraps-from-reporters-is-trivial/) [Thomas Boswell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-boswell/) > [Conversation is the blood of baseball. It flows through the game, an invigorating system of anecdotes. Ballplayers are tale tellers who have polished their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-boswell/conversation-is-the-blood-of-baseball-it-flows-through-the-game-an/) [Thomas Boswell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-boswell/) > [“Familiarity, and a few dozen cheap flyballs off the Monster, breed contempt.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-boswell/familiarity-and-a-few-dozen-cheap-flyballs-off-the-monster-breed/) [Thomas Boswell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-boswell/) > [I think baseball is a great support to people who have emotional voids, gaps, emotional difficulties. That is to say: all of us. Those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-boswell/i-think-baseball-is-a-great-support-to-people-who-have-emotional/) [Thomas Boswell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-boswell/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-boswell/baseball-is-not-necessarily-an-obsessive-compulsive-disorder-like/) [Thomas Boswell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-boswell/) > [Born to an age where horror has become commonplace, where tragedy has, by its monotonous repetition, become a parody of sorrow, we need to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-boswell/born-to-an-age-where-horror-has-become-commonplace-where-tragedy-has/) [Thomas Boswell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-boswell/) > [In and of itself, sports may be trivial, but as a symbol of the American way of life, it has enormous weight. We are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-boswell/in-and-of-itself-sports-may-be-trivial-but-as-a-symbol-of-the/) [Thomas Boswell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-boswell/) > [Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-boswell/baseball-is-to-our-everyday-experience-what-poetry-often-is-to-common/) [Thomas Boswell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-boswell/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-boswell/baseball-has-traditionally-possessed-a-wonderful-lack-of-seriousness/) [Thomas Boswell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-boswell/) > [Quarterbacks have to ask the crowd to quiet down. Pitchers never do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-boswell/quarterbacks-have-to-ask-the-crowd-to-quiet-down-pitchers-never-do/) [Thomas Boswell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-boswell/) > [Baseball is really two sports -- the summer game and the autumn game. One is the leisurely pastime of our national mythology. The other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-boswell/baseball-is-really-two-sports-the-summer-game-and-the-autumn-game-one/) [Thomas Boswell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-boswell/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/think-baseball/thomas-boswell/#itemlist", "name": "1 Think Baseball Quotes By Thomas Boswell", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I think baseball is a great support to people who have emotional voids, gaps, emotional difficulties. That is to say: all of us. 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