Thomas Boswell Quotes

• More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.

  Thomas Boswell

  Sports, Baseball, Illusion

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• 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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  Senior, Baseball, Children

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• Born to an age where horror has become commonplace, where tragedy has, by its monotonous repetition, become a parody of sorrow, we need to fence off a few parks where humans try to be fair, where skill has some hope of reward, where absurdity has a harder time than usual getting a ticket.

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  Skills, Sorrow, Tragedy

  Thomas Boswell (1984). “Why Time Begins on Opening Day”, Doubleday Books

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• There is no substitute for excellence. Not even success.

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  Sports, Entrepreneur, Excellence

  Thomas Boswell (1989). “The heart of the order”, Doubleday Books

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• Baseball is really two sports -- the summer game and the autumn game. One is the leisurely pastime of our national mythology. The other is not so gentle.

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  Summer, Sports, Baseball

  Thomas Boswell (1982). “How life imitates the World Series: an inquiry into the game”, Doubleday

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• 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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  Baseball, Practice, Two

  Thomas Boswell (1982). “How life imitates the World Series: an inquiry into the game”, Doubleday

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• Decades after a person has stopped collecting bubble gum cards, he can still discover himself collecting ballparks... their smells, their special seasons, their moods.

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  Baseball, Smell, Special

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• La conversación es la sangre del béisbol. Fluye a través del juego, un vigorizante sistema de anécdotas. Los jugadores de béisbol son narradores que han pulido su palabrería y aventado su sabiduría durante años.

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  Baseball, Games, Blood

  Thomas Boswell (1982). “How life imitates the World Series: an inquiry into the game”, Doubleday

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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 that way. We're reaching the point where you can be a truly dedicated, state-of-the-art fan or you can have a life. Take your pick.

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  Baseball, Art, Hands

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• El béisbol significa que ha llegado la primavera. El fútbol significa que llega el invierno.

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  Baseball, Football, Spring

  Thomas Boswell (1989). “The heart of the order”, Doubleday Books

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• 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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  Sports, Baseball, Hockey

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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, Often Is, Everyday

  Thomas Boswell (1982). “How life imitates the World Series: an inquiry into the game”, Doubleday

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• Football is played best full of adrenaline and anger. Moderation seldom finds a place. Almost every act of baseball is a blending of effort and control; too much of either is fatal.

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  Baseball, Football, Effort

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• El béisbol ha poseído tradicionalmente una maravillosa falta de seriedad. El mejor jugador del juego, Babe Ruth, era un gordo rabelaisiano, y su entrenador más querido, Casey Stengel, hablaba sandeces. En este perezoso deporte, sólo el lanzador suda. Luego se toma tres días de descanso.

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  Deportes, Béisbol, Hombres

  Thomas Boswell (1984). “Why Time Begins on Opening Day”, Doubleday Books

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• Baseball is the religion that worships the obvious and gives thanks that things are exactly as they seem. Instead of celebrating mysteries, baseball rejoices in the absence of mysteries and trusts that, if we watch what is laid before our eyes, down to the last detail, we will cultivate the gift of seeing things as they really are.

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  Baseball, Eye, Giving

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• El terrorismo expulsa toda actividad humana normal ante sí, definiendo la vida en sus propios términos enfermizos, si puede. Así, un partido de béisbol en una bochornosa noche tejana ante una gran multitud, con todo el mundo sintiéndose perfectamente seguro, es exactamente lo que odian los terroristas. Por eso es tan importante reanudar esos rituales atléticos -que simbolizan estabilidad, confianza y orden- tan pronto como sea razonablemente posible.

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  Sports, Baseball, Hate

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• Cheating is baseball's oldest profession. No other game is so rich in skullduggery, so suited to it or so proud of it.

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  Baseball, Cheating, Games

  Thomas Boswell (1982). “How life imitates the World Series: an inquiry into the game”, Doubleday

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• Any person claiming to be a baseball fan who does not also claim to have invented the quickest, simplest and most complete method of keeping score probably is a fraud.

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  Baseball, Fans, Doe

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• Quarterbacks have to ask the crowd to quiet down. Pitchers never do.

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  Crowds, Quiet, Quarterback

  Thomas Boswell (1989). “The heart of the order”, Doubleday Books

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• As every golfer knows, no one ever lost his mind over one shot. It is rather the gradual process of shot after shot watching your score go to tatters - knowing that you have found a different way to bogey each hole.

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  Golf, Knowing, Mind

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• When life is suddenly more serious more of the time, there is also more need for it to be fun at least some of the time. That's why my family will be at a college football game this weekend. We need it. And deserve it, too. Not like a New York fireman deserves it. Or a medic at the Pentagon. But enough.

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  Sports, Football, New York

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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 the Russians in the 1980 Olympics. Jack Nicklaus cannot shoot 65 to win the Masters at age forty-six. Nothing else comes immediately to mind.

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  Team, Golf, Hockey

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• 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.

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  Baseball, Team, Law

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• A narrative voice with conviction is often hard to find. But not in baseball. The minors teach two lost American arts: how to chew tobacco and how to tell a story.

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  Baseball, Art, Narrative Voice

  Thomas Boswell (1982). “How life imitates the World Series: an inquiry into the game”, Doubleday

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• Of the big four, the PGA is the most fair and the least fun. Basically, it's just the US Open set up by nice, rather than nasty, fellows.

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  Fun, Nice, Golf

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