Thomas Boswell
Thomas Boswell
Thomas M. Boswellis an American sports columnist...
golf major tournament watching
A Major golf tournament is 40,000 sadists watching 144 masochists.
date fling june rather tacky tour wish
The PGA Tour will wish it had an entrenched June date here rather than a tacky fling with FedEx in Memphis.
almost begins opening time
Time begins on Opening Day . . . (when) we know that something fine, almost wonderful, is about to (happen).
entrepreneur excellence substitutes
There is no substitute for excellence. Not even success.
baseball smell special
Decades after a person has stopped collecting bubble gum cards, he can still discover himself collecting ballparks... their smells, their special seasons, their moods.
football baseball spring
Baseball means Spring's Here. Football means Winter's Coming.
senior baseball children
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.
baseball art hands
Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it's beginning to seem that way. We're reaching the point where you can be a truly dedicated, state-of-the-art fan or you can have a life. Take your pick.
baseball team law
An almost inexorable baseball law: A Red Sox ship with a single leak will always find a way to sink No team is worshipped with such a perverse sense of fatality.
baseball cheating games
Cheating is baseball's oldest profession. No other game is so rich in skullduggery, so suited to it or so proud of it.
baseball doe fans
Any person claiming to be a baseball fan who does not also claim to have invented the quickest, simplest and most complete method of keeping score probably is a fraud.
baseball mischief
Baseball is religion without the mischief.
baseball practice two
All baseball fans can be divided into two groups: those who come to batting practice and the others. Only those in the first category have much chance of amounting to anything.
baseball eye giving
Baseball is the religion that worships the obvious and gives thanks that things are exactly as they seem. Instead of celebrating mysteries, baseball rejoices in the absence of mysteries and trusts that, if we watch what is laid before our eyes, down to the last detail, we will cultivate the gift of seeing things as they really are.