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"Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keephitting, keep the rally alive, and you have defeated time. You remain forever young."
-- Roger Angell
"I see great things in baseball. It's our game 퀌¢í‰Œóí¢Œó*ñ the American game. It will take our people out of
doors, fill them with oxygen . . . Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us."
-- Walt Whitman
"It's hard to understand people who hate baseball, but easy to pity them. Never to have felt the
surge of joy watching a ball sail over the fence or a fielder making a running, leaping catch is to
have missed a great pleasure indeed. For that matter, to have missed the anger and despair
when the ball sailing over the fence beats your favorite team in an important game is equally
sad, because the caring feels so good. To find baseball boring is to have missed drama and
nuance, the laughter and tears that come from joy or sorrow. It's a shame."
-- Alison Gordon
"No baseball fan has to explain his mania to any other baseball fan. They are a fraternity. It is
less easy, often it is hopeless, to try to explain it to anyone else. You grow technical, and you
do not make sense. You grow sentimental, and you are deemed soft in the head. How, the
benighted outsider asks you with no little condescension, can you grow sentimental about a
cold-blooded professional sport?"
-- John K. Hutchens
"To the fierce, ardent, leather-lunged professional fan, baseball is life itself, a motive for breathing, the
yeast that helps his spirit, as well as his gorge, rise. "
--Jim Bouton
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