“Any baseball is beautiful. No other small package comes as close to the ideal design and utility. It is a perfect object for a man's hand. Pick it up and it instantly suggests its purpose; it is meant to be thrown a considerable distance - thrown hard and with precision.” MenHardHandsBeautifulPurposePerfectDesignObjectsPicksIdealsBaseballDistanceThrownMeant To BePackagesUtilityPrecisionInspirational BaseballSpring TrainingSmall Packages Book:Five Seasons: A Baseball Companion Source: Five Seasons: A Baseball Companion
“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
“Writing is hard, even for authors who do it all the time.” WritingHard Book:This Old Man: All in Pieces Source: This Old Man: All in Pieces
“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
