Baseball Quote by Thomas Boswell

“An almost inexorable baseball law: A Red Sox ship with a single leak will always find a way to sink No team is worshipped with such a perverse sense of fatality.”

Thomas Boswell

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“What most people want to keep under wraps (from reporters) is trivial: petty jealousies, professional feuds, etc. By contrast, most of the things they…

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“Familiarity, and a few dozen cheap flyballs off the Monster, breed contempt.”

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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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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…

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