“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.”
Thomas Boswell“Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.”
Thomas Boswell, How Life Imitates the World Series“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.”
Thomas Boswell, How Life Imitates the World Series