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Games Quotes by Thomas Boswell
- When life is suddenly more serious more of the time, there is also more need for it to be fun at least some of the…
- In and of itself, sports may be trivial, but as a symbol of the American way of life, it has enormous weight. We are seen,…
- Terrorism drives out all normal human activity before it, defining life in its own sick terms, if it can. So, a baseball game on a…
- 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 manager,…
- 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…
- Cheating is baseball's oldest profession. No other game is so rich in skullduggery, so suited to it or so proud of it.
- Conversation is the blood of baseball. It flows through the game, an invigorating system of anecdotes. Ballplayers are tale tellers who have polished their malarkey…
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