“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.” PersonsDoeFansBaseballClaimsMethodScoreFraudSimplestBaseball Fans Author:Thomas Boswell
“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.” FirstsTwoChancePracticeGroupsFansBaseballCategoriesDividedBattingBaseball FansBatting Practice Book:How life imitates the World Series: an inquiry into the game Source: How life imitates the World Series: an inquiry into the game
“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.” WayArtStatesHandsSeemsFansPicksBaseballReachingDisorderDedicatedWashingObsessiveBaseball GamesBaseball FansObsessive CompulsiveObsessive Compulsive Disorder Author:Thomas Boswell
“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.” PeopleThinkingNeedsWellsChildrenUseGamesLevelsSupportFansEmotionalListeningCitizensBaseballFunctionDifficultyRadioGapsVoidSeniorWheelchairsSenior CitizenBaseball Fans Author:Thomas Boswell
