Anecdotes Quote by Thomas Boswell

“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 and winnowed their wisdom for years.”

Thomas Boswell

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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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