"In and of itself, sports may be trivial,……" — Thomas Boswell
"In and of itself, sports may be trivial, but as a symbol of the American way of life, it has enormous weight. We are seen, worldwide, as an enormously competitive, enthusiastic people who work as hard as we play and play as hard as we work. When baseball - which has traditionally canceled one day of games for huge national celebrations or disasters - stops play for six days, that has reverberations in the national consciousness."
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26 Quotes by 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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Quarterbacks have to ask the crowd to quiet down. Pitchers never do.
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