“Hold a baseball in your hand ... Feel the ball, turn it over in your hand; hold it across the seam or the other way, with the seam just to the side of your middle finger. Speculation stirs. You want to get outdoors and throw this spare and sensual object to somebody or, at the very least, watch somebody else throw it. The game has begun.” WayWantFeelsHandsTurnsGamesSidesWatchesMiddleObjectsBaseballBallsFingersSensualSparesSpeculationMiddle Finger Book:Five Seasons: A Baseball Companion Source: Five Seasons: A Baseball Companion
“Baseball's time is seamless and invisible, a bubble within which players move at exactly the same pace and rhythms as all their predecessors. This is the way the game was played in our youth and in our fathers' youth, and even back then ... there must have been the same feeling that time could be stopped.” WayHas BeensFeelingsMovingFatherGamesPlayerYouthBaseballInvisibleRhythmPaceBubblesOur FatherPredecessorsSeamless Book:Once More Around the Park: A Baseball Reader Source: Once More Around the Park: A Baseball Reader
“Friends of mine said later that they had been riveted by a postgame television close-up of Wade Boggs, sitting alone in the dugout with tears streaming down his face …. I suppose we should all try to find something better or worse to shed tears for than a game, no matter how hard it has been played, but perhaps it is not such a bad thing to see that men can cry at all.” MenShouldTryingHas BeensSaidMatterHardFacesGamesCryTelevisionTearsMinesSittingBad ThingsShedSomething BetterWadeStreamingSitting Alone Author:Roger Angell
“What really makes baseball so hard is it's retributive capacity for disaster if the smallest thing is done wrong, and the invisible presence of defeat that attends every game.” IfsHardDoneGamesSportsCapacityBaseballDefeatDisasterInvisibleSmallest Author:Roger Angell
