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“Baseball is really two sports -- the summer game and the autumn game. One is the leisurely pastime of our national mythology. The other is not so gentle.”

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Book:How life imitates the World Series: an inquiry into the game

Source: How life imitates the World Series: an inquiry into the game

“In a nation committed to better living through chemistry - where Viagra-enabled men pursue silicone-contoured women - the national pastime has a problem of illicit chemical enhancement. Steroids threaten the health of the 5 percent to 7 percent of players proved, by a mild regime of scheduled tests, to be using them. Steroids also endanger emulative young people. Further, steroids subvert what baseball is selling - fair competition. And they strike at the pleasure of engagement with America's team sport with the longest history.”

Source: One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation

“Westward, beyond the still pleasant, but, even then, no longer solitary, hamlet of Charing, a broad space, broken here and there by scattered houses and venerable pollards, in the early spring of 1467, presented the rural scene for the sports and pastimes of the inhabitants of Westminister and London.”

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Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.”

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Author:Lou Gehrig

“Fantasy football is actually an amazing American pastime, because it takes the ultimate team sport, NFL and football, and turns it into the quest for individual achievement.”

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Author:Jeff Schaffer