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Roger Angell has 22 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Any baseball is beautiful. No other small package comes as close to the ideal design and utility. It is a perfect object…
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I felt what I almost always feel when I am watching a ballgame: Just for those two or three hours, there is…
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Sports are too much with us. Late and soon, sitting and watching - mostly watching on television - we lay waste our…
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This was a new recognition that perfection is admirable but a trifle inhuman, and that a stumbling kind of semi-success can be…
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What the dead don't know piles up, though we don't notice it at first. They don't know how we're getting along without…
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I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I…
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The great thing about catchers is that they do a lot of different things, and they're basically overlooked.
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Friends of mine said later that they had been riveted by a postgame television close-up of Wade Boggs, sitting alone in the…
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Our stories about our own lives are a form of fiction, I began to see and become more insistent as we grow…
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Life is tough and brimming with loss, and the most we can do about it is to glimpse ourselves clear now and…
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Cub fans, by consensus, are the best in baseball. Year after year, in good times and (mostly) bad, they turn out in…
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Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keep hitting, keep the rally alive,…
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Ah, these diplomats! What chatterboxes! There's only one way to shut them up - cut them down with machine guns. Bulganin, go…
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When we admit our vulnerability, we include others. If we deny it, we shut them out.
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What? You can't knit in the dark? Stuff and nonsense; anybody can. Shut your eyes. Knit one stitch. Open your eyes and…
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... Once you're safely in the mall, you should tie your children to you with ropes so the other shoppers won't try…
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