"All baseball fans can be divided into two……" — Thomas Boswell
"All baseball fans can be divided into two groups: those who come to batting practice and the others. Only those in the first category have much chance of amounting to anything."
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26 Quotes by Thomas Boswell
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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…
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At its best, the US Open demands straight drives, crisp iron shots, brilliant chipping and putting, and strategic position play.…
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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…
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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…
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In and of itself, sports may be trivial, but as a symbol of the American way of life, it has…
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Terrorism drives out all normal human activity before it, defining life in its own sick terms, if it can. So,…
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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…
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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,…
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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:…
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