52 Quotes by Thomas Boswell

Baseball means Spring’s Here. Football means Winter’s Coming.

Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech – a slightly elevated and concentrated form.

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.

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.

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.

Bruce Sutter and his new pitch, the split finger fastball, fascinate the manager of the Cuban national teams. ‘We must find out about this new weapon,’ he said. ‘Are the American hitters plotting to murder him?

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.