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"The baseball mania has run its course. It has no future as a professional endeavor."
"You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping as baseball and in the end, it turns out that it was the other way around all the time."

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play beginning when a player on the fielding team, called the pitcher, throws a ball that a player on the batting team, called the batter, tries to hit with a bat. The objective of the offensive team is to hit the ball into t
"The baseball mania has run its course. It has no future as a professional endeavor."
"Baseball has an inner beauty. It is not governed by time. [...] Baseball, in crucial moments, is often a contact sport, with men on the bases. But if you sit back and just look, youre seeing the most orderly and the most classic game, I believe, in the world. This is why you cannot photograph it. You cannot put it on television and make it as exciting as the other sports. Its too big a range and you have the flattening out on the screen. You lose all the kinetic energy."
"Baseball is too much a business to be a sport and too much a sport to be a business."
"This is a game to be savored, not gulped. Theres time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.."
"“In baseball, democracy shines its clearest,” he later wrote. “The only race that matters is the race to the bat. The creed is the rulebook; color merely something to distinguish one team’s uniform from another.”"
"[B]aseball is a game of idling, a game of stories. Its an informal game, unlike football, which is paramilitary in nature. As Fred Moody once commented, NFL football doesnt consider the press to be a necessary evil. It considers the press to be an unnecessary evil."