Major Sports Are Major Parts Of Society.

If A Family Is An Expression Of Continuity Through Biology, A City Is An Expression Of Continuity Through Will Amd Imagination? Through Mental Choices Making Artifice, Not Through Physical Reproduction.

To Go From Yale To The National League Is Simply To Go From One Form Of Management To Another.

It Breaks Your Heart. It Is Designed To Break Your Heart. The Game Begins In Spring, When Everything Else Begins Again, And It Blossoms In The Summer, Filling The Afternoons And Evenings, And Then As Soon As The Chill Rains Come, It Stops And Leaves You To Face The Fall Alone.

For Me, Baseball Is The Most Nourishing Game Outside Of Literature. They Both Are Re-tellings Of Human Experience.

You Count On It, You Rely On It To Buffer The Passage Of Time, To Keep The Memory Of Sunshine And High Skies Alive, And Then, Just When The Days Are All Twilight, When You Need It Most, It Stops.