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“This was a new recognition that perfection is admirable but a trifle inhuman, and that a stumbling kind of semi-success can be much more warming. Most of all, perhaps, these exultant yells for the Mets were also yells for ourselves, and came from a wry, half-understood recognition that there is more Met than Yankee in every one of us. I knew for whom that foghorn blew; it blew for me.”

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Roger Angell

Roger Angell, born in September 1920, is an accomplished American essayist known for his unique sense of humor and profound insights into sports, culture, and personal life. more

“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.”

Knows Way Want Feels Mind Firsts Courses Hours Know How Phones Breakfast Phone Calls Inexorable Getting Along

Author:Roger Angell

“I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.”

Want Player Baseball Presses Scared Boxes Faking It

Author:Roger Angell

“The great thing about catchers is that they do a lot of different things, and they're basically overlooked.”

Different Great Things Different Things Overlooked Catchers

Author:Roger Angell

“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.”