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Quote of the day

Posted: August 7, 2016 | Author: | Filed under: Quote of the day | Tags: , , |4 Comments

Any baseball is beautiful.  No other small package comes as close to the ideal design and utility.  It is a perfect object for a man’s hand.  Pick it up and it instantly suggests its purpose; it is meant to be thrown a considerable distance, thrown hard and with precision.

~Roger Angell

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4 Comments on “Quote of the day”

  1. verdun2 says:
    August 7, 2016 at 10:21 am

    What took so long for the Hall to recognize him? Incomprehensible.
    v

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  2. Ken Burns’s Baseball: The Sixth Inning | Archived Innings says:
    November 20, 2017 at 6:58 am

    […] at the plate.  Thanks in part to this strategy, the Cardinals won that year’s Series.  Roger Angell says it well when he explains that baseball is not a game about winning, like we think it is, but […]

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