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W. P. Kinsella Quotes about Baseball

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Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the baselines anything can happen. Tides can reverse; oceans can open. That's why they say, the game

Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the baselines anything can happen. Tides can reverse; oceans can open. That's why they say, "the game is never over until the last man is out." Colors can change, lives can alter, anything is possible in this gentle, flawless, loving game.

W. P. Kinsella
Baseball, Life Changing, Ocean

Baseball games are like snowflakes and fingerprints, no two are ever alike.

W. P. Kinsella
Baseball, Games, Two
W. P. Kinsella (1983). “Shoeless Joe”, New York : Ballantine Books

Praise the name of baseball. The word will set captives free. The word will open the eyes of the blind. The word will raise the dead. Have you the word of baseball living inside you? Has the word of baseball become part of you? Do you live it, play it, digest it, forever? Let an old man tell you to make the word of baseball your life. Walk into the world and speak of baseball. Let the word flow through you like water, so that it may quicken the thirst of your fellow man.

W. P. Kinsella
Baseball, Eye, Men

America has been erased like a blackboard, only to be rebuilt and then erased again. But baseball has marked time while America has rolled by like a procession of steamrollers.

W. P. Kinsella
Sports, Baseball, America
Shoeless Joe pt. 4 (1982)

Someone once described the pitching of a no-hit game as like catching lighting in a bottle.

W. P. Kinsella
Softball, Baseball, Games

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.

W. P. Kinsella
Baseball, Growing Up, Firsts
W. P. Kinsella (1999). “Shoeless Joe”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game.

W. P. Kinsella
Baseball, Hero, Games

After the strike, I lost interest. In reality, neither players nor owners care in the least about the fans. The greed of both factions has destroyed baseball's credibility, at least for the present.

W. P. Kinsella
Baseball, Reality, Player
Interview with Rob Darnell, robdarnell.com. August 21, 2015.

The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.

W. P. Kinsella
Baseball, Bird, Sound

It is the same game that Moonlight Graham played in 1905. It is a living part of history, like calico dresses, stone crockery, and threshing crews eating at outdoor tables. It continually reminds us of what was, like an Indian-head penny in a handful of new coins.

W. P. Kinsella
Baseball, Games, Tables
W. P. Kinsella (1999). “Shoeless Joe”, p.253, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

He bats like a lightning rod.

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Baseball, Lightning, Bats

Baseball is meant to be a contemplative game. They play music to draw young people to the game. If young people can't come to the game without music, then they should stay home.

W. P. Kinsella
Baseball, Home, Games

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