“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
“What the dead don't know piles up, though we don't notice it at first. They don't know how we're getting along without them, of course, dealing with the hours and days that now accrue so quickly, and, unless they divined this somehow in advance, they don't know that we don't want this inexorable onslaught of breakfasts and phone calls and going to the bank, all this stepping along, because we don't want anything extraneous to get in the way of what we feel about them or the ways we want to hold them in mind.” KnowsWayWantFeelsMindFirstsCoursesHoursKnow HowPhonesBreakfastPhone CallsInexorableGetting Along Author:Roger Angell
“Our stories about our own lives are a form of fiction, I began to see and become more insistent as we grow older, even as we try to make them come out in some other way.” WayTryingStoriesFormGrowsFiction Book:Let Me Finish Source: Let Me Finish
“I think I wrote once that baseball in many ways is very much like reading. I said there are more bad books than bad ballgames, or maybe it was the other way around. I can't remember.” ThinkingWaySaidI CanBookRememberReadingBaseballBallgame Author:Roger Angell
