“(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action.”
~John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
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“(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action.”
~John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
And his was a comment of increasingly heightened irritability, coming from the depths of unlimited anonymity. Don’t know who John Irving is, but what he describes is merely a piece of the many small parts that combine to make baseball the greatest game on earth. It’s the crack of the bat, the feel of the grass, the smell of the glove at your nose; it’s the roar of the crowd and the feeling you get as over the wall she goes. Baseball is all these things and so much more, and I personally think they’re all worth waiting for! 🙂
I agree :). And John Irving is a novelist. He wrote ‘A Prayer for Owen Meany’ (an awesome book btw) and ‘The World According to Garp.’