Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form. Thomas Boswell More Quotes by Thomas Boswell More Quotes From Thomas Boswell I may be the only golfer never to have broken a single putter, if you don't count the one I twisted into a loop and threw into a bush. Thomas Boswell broken may golf An almost inexorable baseball law: A Red Sox ship with a single leak will always find a way to sink No team is worshipped with such a perverse sense of fatality. Thomas Boswell team baseball law 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 hate baseball sports A good umpire, like a good FBI agent, is never noticed if he is doing his job. Thomas Boswell fbi-agents umpires jobs When you fall in love with golf, you seldom fall easy. Itʹs obsession at first sight. Thomas Boswell falling-in-love sight golf At its best, the US Open demands straight drives, crisp iron shots, brilliant chipping and putting, and strategic position play. Plus the patience of St. Francis and the will of Patton. At its worst, the Open eradicates the difference in ability between a Tom Purtzer and a Tom Watson and throws both in the same jail of high rough and high risk shots. This is the disturbing tendency in the Opens of the seventies and eighties, one which worries everyone in golf. Thomas Boswell jail play golf The best place to catch a baseball hit by (Mark) McGwire is definitely not within the confines of the playing field, or sometimes even the ballpark. Other players dial '1' for long distance. McGwire has to ask for an international operator. Thomas Boswell distance player baseball As every golfer knows, no one ever lost his mind over one shot. It is rather the gradual process of shot after shot watching your score go to tatters - knowing that you have found a different way to bogey each hole. Thomas Boswell knowing mind golf A major golf tournament is 40,000 sadists watching 144 masochists. Thomas Boswell golf-tournaments tournaments golf Of the big four, the PGA is the most fair and the least fun. Basically, it's just the US Open set up by nice, rather than nasty, fellows. Thomas Boswell nice golf fun A narrative voice with conviction is often hard to find. But not in baseball. The minors teach two lost American arts: how to chew tobacco and how to tell a story. Thomas Boswell narrative-voice baseball art
