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Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech - a slightly elevated and concentrated form.

A major golf tournament is 40,000 sadists watching 144 masochists.

There is no substitute for excellence. Not even success.

Familiarity, and a few dozen cheap flyballs off the Monster, breed contempt.

Quarterbacks have to ask the crowd to quiet down. Pitchers never do.

Baseball means Spring's Here. Football means Winter's Coming.

A good umpire, like a good FBI agent, is never noticed if he is doing his job.

I may be the only golfer never to have broken a single putter, if you don't count the one I twisted into a loop and threw into a bush.

More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.

Cheating is baseball's oldest profession. No other game is so rich in skullduggery, so suited to it or so proud of it.

[B]aseball is diffracted by the town and ballpark where it is played ... Does baseball, like a liquid, take the shape of its container?

Of the big four, the PGA is the most fair and the least fun. Basically, it's just the US Open set up by nice, rather than nasty, fellows.

Baseball is religion without the mischief.