The game was played hard in those days, Mr.King, with plenty of fuck-you.

Baseball is a good thing. Always was, always will be.

Baseball is also a game of balance.

The best show on television is Red Sox baseball. Everything else sucks.

What if there were no grownups? Suppose the whole idea of grownups was an illusion? What if their money was really just playground marbles, their business deals no more than baseball-card trades, their wars only games of guns in the park? What if they were all still snotty-nosed kids inside their suits and dresses? Christ, that couldn't be, could it? It was too horrible to think about.