“The crowd and its team had finally understood that in games, as in many things, the ending, the final score, is only… — Thomas Boswell Baseball Copy Share Image
The best place to catch a baseball hit by (Mark) McGwire is definitely not within the confines of the playing field, or… — Thomas Boswell Asks Copy Share Image
Decades after a person has stopped collecting bubble gum cards, he can still discover himself collecting ballparks... their smells, their special seasons,… — Thomas Boswell Ballparks Copy Share Image
Baseball is the religion that worships the obvious and gives thanks that things are exactly as they seem. Instead of celebrating mysteries,… — Thomas Boswell Absence Copy Share Image
As every golfer knows, no one ever lost his mind over one shot. It is rather the gradual process of shot after… — Thomas Boswell Different Copy Share Image
I may be the only golfer never to have broken a single putter, if you don't count the one I twisted into… — Thomas Boswell Broken Copy Share Image
A good umpire, like a good FBI agent, is never noticed if he is doing his job. — Thomas Boswell Agents Copy Share Image
More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood. — Thomas Boswell Baseball Copy Share Image
All baseball fans can be divided into two groups: those who come to batting practice and the others. Only those in the… — Thomas Boswell Baseball Copy Share Image
Cheating is baseball's oldest profession. No other game is so rich in skullduggery, so suited to it or so proud of it. — Thomas Boswell Baseball Copy Share Image
At its best, the US Open demands straight drives, crisp iron shots, brilliant chipping and putting, and strategic position play. Plus the… — Thomas Boswell Ability Copy Share Image
A major golf tournament is 40,000 sadists watching 144 masochists. — Thomas Boswell Golf Copy Share Image
A narrative voice with conviction is often hard to find. But not in baseball. The minors teach two lost American arts: how… — Thomas Boswell Art Copy Share Image
“Almost without exception, they are men who dreamed of athletic heroism as children; becoming umpires was their compromise with their own lack… — Thomas Boswell Baseball Copy Share Image
