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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
Sports, Baseball, Illusion

There is no substitute for excellence. Not even success.

Thomas Boswell
Sports, Entrepreneur, Excellence
Thomas Boswell (1989). “The heart of the order”, Doubleday Books

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.

Thomas Boswell
Summer, Sports, Baseball
Thomas Boswell (1982). “How life imitates the World Series: an inquiry into the game”, Doubleday

In and of itself, sports may be trivial, but as a symbol of the American way of life, it has enormous weight. We are seen, worldwide, as an enormously competitive, enthusiastic people who work as hard as we play and play as hard as we work. When baseball - which has traditionally canceled one day of games for huge national celebrations or disasters - stops play for six days, that has reverberations in the national consciousness.

Thomas Boswell
Sports, Baseball, Hockey

Baseball has traditionally possessed a wonderful lack of seriousness. The game's best player, Babe Ruth, was a Rabelaisian fat man, and its most loved manager, Casey Stengel, spoke gibberish. In this lazy sport, only the pitcher pours sweat. Then he takes three days off.

Thomas Boswell
Sports, Baseball, Men
Thomas Boswell (1984). “Why Time Begins on Opening Day”, Doubleday Books

Terrorism drives out all normal human activity before it, defining life in its own sick terms, if it can. So, a baseball game on a sultry Texas night before a huge crowd, with everyone feeling perfectly safe, is exactly what terrorists hate. Which is why it is so important to resume such athletic rituals - which symbolize stability, confidence and order - as soon as is reasonably possible.

Thomas Boswell
Sports, Baseball, Hate

When life is suddenly more serious more of the time, there is also more need for it to be fun at least some of the time. That's why my family will be at a college football game this weekend. We need it. And deserve it, too. Not like a New York fireman deserves it. Or a medic at the Pentagon. But enough.

Thomas Boswell
Sports, Football, New York

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