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Donald Hall Quotes about Baseball

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Baseball is continuous, like nothing else among American things, an endless game of repeated summers, joining the long generations of all the fathers and all the sons.

Baseball is continuous, like nothing else among American things, an endless game of repeated summers, joining the long generations of all the fathers and all the sons.

Donald Hall
Summer, Baseball, Father
Donald Hall (2017). “Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball)”, p.53, North Point Press

Baseball is fathers and sons. Football is brothers beating each other up in the backyard.

Donald Hall
Baseball, Football, Brother
Donald Hall (2017). “Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball)”, p.35, North Point Press

Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers.

Donald Hall
Baseball, Memories, America

For most baseball fans, maybe oldest is always best. We love baseball because it seizes and retains the past, like the snowy village inside a glass paperweight.

Donald Hall
Baseball, Past, Glasses
Donald Hall (2017). “Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball)”, p.59, North Point Press

You know how, when you fly from coast to coast on a really clear day, looking down from many miles up, you can see the little baseball diamonds everywhere? And every time I see a baseball diamond my heart goes out to it. And I think somewhere down there- I don't see any houses, I can hardly see any roads- but I know that people down there are playing the game we all love.

Donald Hall
Baseball, Heart, Thinking

Joe DiMaggio batting sometimes gave the impression, the suggestion that the old rules and dimensions of baseball no longer applied to him, and that the game had at last grown unfairly easy.

Donald Hall
Baseball, Games, Suggestions

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