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

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

Thomas Boswell quotes: A major golf tournament is 40,000 sadists watching 144 masochists.

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

Thomas Boswell quotes: There is no substitute for excellence. Not even success.

There is no substitute for excellence. Not even success.

Thomas Boswell quotes: Familiarity, and a few dozen cheap flyballs off the Monster, breed contempt.

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

Thomas Boswell quotes: Quarterbacks have to ask the crowd to quiet down. Pitchers never do.

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

Thomas Boswell quotes: Baseball means Spring's Here. Football means Winter's Coming.

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

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

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

Thomas Boswell quotes: 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Thomas Boswell quotes: 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.

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.

Thomas Boswell quotes: Baseball is religion without the mischief.

Baseball is religion without the mischief.