Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music.
Within reasonable limits, a professional player should keep busy at music.
Players shy away from talking to announcers today.
I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.
It would be useless for any player to attempt to explain successful batting.
Players who aren't self-starters shouldn't blame the coach for being the crank.
There were no women's players I knew of. I didn't even know women's hockey existed.
The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
And wasn't that a great moment in baseball history," Holly Grace replied with withering sarcasm. "Helen Keller pitching and Little Stevie Wonder catching.
Molly wondered if these boys really loved baseball, the sound and smell of it, the rhythm of it, the leather and wood, the grass and dirt, the story and surprise in a good game.
A brick could replace the cardboard bill on a baseball cap. On a windy day, no gust will knock your hat off.
And if I see you step foot on my property again, I’ll do more than make a phone call,” he says, waving the baseball bat around menacingly.
I kind of write about visual art the way Roger Angell writes about baseball, which is to say, you're writing about life: it's a somewhat focused, limited terrain in which you write about everything.
Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.
Economy is not baseball, where the game is always played by the same rules.
Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.
Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.
I’m trying to cover all my bases so I can be a complete baseball nonplayer. I’ve already not bought a bat, a glove, and a bed to sleep on.
While I’m no Major League Baseball prospect, I have thrown a few no-hitters in my day. And not only were there no hitters, there was also nobody there to catch.
I watch baseball on TV like my cat watches the window. Somebody open the blinds so we can see better!
[B]aseball is diffracted by the town and ballpark where it is played... Does baseball, like a liquid, take the shape of its container?
