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Thomas Boswell has 28 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I may be the only golfer never to have broken a single putter, if you don't count the one I twisted into…
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At its best, the US Open demands straight drives, crisp iron shots, brilliant chipping and putting, and strategic position play. Plus the…
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Some things cannont possibly happen, because they are both too improbable and too perfect. The U.S. hockey team cannot beat the Russians…
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When you fall in love with golf, you seldom fall easy. Itʹs obsession at first sight.
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When life is suddenly more serious more of the time, there is also more need for it to be fun at least…
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In and of itself, sports may be trivial, but as a symbol of the American way of life, it has enormous weight.…
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Terrorism drives out all normal human activity before it, defining life in its own sick terms, if it can. So, a baseball…
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Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it's beginning to seem that way.…
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Baseball has traditionally possessed a wonderful lack of seriousness. The game's best player, Babe Ruth, was a Rabelaisian fat man, and its…
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A good umpire, like a good FBI agent, is never noticed if he is doing his job.
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Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.
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I think baseball is a great support to people who have emotional voids, gaps, emotional difficulties. That is to say: all of…
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Rules of society are nothing; one's conscience is the umpire.
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Every man's reason is his own rightful umpire. This principle, with that of acquiescence in the will of the majority, will preserve…
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I remember once in high school the umpire called me out at third base when I was sure I was safe. I…
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My favorite umpire is a dead one.
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But, you may ask, if the two departments [i.e., federal and state] should claim each the same subject of power, where is…
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The trouble with me is that every match I play against five opponents: umpire, crowd, ball boys, court, and myself.
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Ed (Runge), you're the second best umpire in the league. The other twenty-three are tied for first.
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Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that…
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A good umpire is the umpire you don't even notice
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