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

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

“What most people want to keep under wraps (from reporters) is trivial: petty jealousies, professional feuds, etc. By contrast, most of the things they have thought about most seriously all their lives they are perfectly winning to uncover.”