"Infield practice is more mystic ritual than preparation,……" — Roger Angell
"Infield practice is more mystic ritual than preparation, encouraging the big-leaguer, no less than the duffer in the stands, to believe in spite of all evidence to the contrary, that playing ball is a snap."
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Roger Angell
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22 Quotes by Roger Angell
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Any baseball is beautiful. No other small package comes as close to the ideal design and utility. It is a…
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I felt what I almost always feel when I am watching a ballgame: Just for those two or three hours,…
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Sports are too much with us. Late and soon, sitting and watching - mostly watching on television - we lay…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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Our stories about our own lives are a form of fiction, I began to see and become more insistent as…
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Life is tough and brimming with loss, and the most we can do about it is to glimpse ourselves clear…
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Cub fans, by consensus, are the best in baseball. Year after year, in good times and (mostly) bad, they turn…
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Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keep hitting, keep the…
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