"I think baseball is a great support to……" — Thomas Boswell
"I think baseball is a great support to people who have emotional voids, gaps, emotional difficulties. That is to say: all of us. Those parts of us that don’t function well. Those parts of us that are sad or depressed—not every day. They can really use baseball. It isn't just the child in a wheelchair or the shut-in senior citizen listening to the radio that needs the game. There’s part of us, part of everybody who’s a baseball fan, who needs the game at that level."
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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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When you fall in love with golf, you seldom fall easy. Itʹs obsession at first sight.
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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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Quarterbacks have to ask the crowd to quiet down. Pitchers never do.
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