Thomas Boswell
Thomas Boswell
Thomas M. Boswellis an American sports columnist...
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The PGA Tour will wish it had an entrenched June date here rather than a tacky fling with FedEx in Memphis.
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I think baseball is a great support to people who have emotional voids, gaps, emotional difficulties. That is to say: all of us. Those parts of us that don’t function well. Those parts of us that are sad or depressed—not every day. They can really use baseball. It isn't just the child in a wheelchair or the shut-in senior citizen listening to the radio that needs the game. There’s part of us, part of everybody who’s a baseball fan, who needs the game at that level.
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A major golf tournament is 40,000 sadists watching 144 masochists.
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I may be the only golfer never to have broken a single putter, if you don't count the one I twisted into a loop and threw into a bush.
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At its best, the US Open demands straight drives, crisp iron shots, brilliant chipping and putting, and strategic position play. Plus the patience of St. Francis and the will of Patton. At its worst, the Open eradicates the difference in ability between a Tom Purtzer and a Tom Watson and throws both in the same jail of high rough and high risk shots. This is the disturbing tendency in the Opens of the seventies and eighties, one which worries everyone in golf.
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Baseball is really two sports -- the summer game and the autumn game. One is the leisurely pastime of our national mythology. The other is not so gentle.