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Autobiography and memoir2 quotes
You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time. — Jim Bouton · 1970There must be many fathers around the country who have experienced the cruellest, most crushing rejection of all: their children have ended up supporting the wrong team. — Nick Hornby · 1992Biography1 quote
How can you not be romantic about baseball? — Billy Beane · 2011Biography (film)1 quote
How can you not be romantic about baseball? — Billy Beane · 2011Political literature1 quote
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting. — George Orwell · 1945