Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get

Perhaps crossing the barriers of time has freed me.

I’m not trying to bleed you. I want to renew you.

What causes all this?””Pride. What else?

I am more than a little jealous that the wonder I am party to has been sprinkled over Salinger’s gray head.

God what an outfield,’ he says. ‘What a left field.’ He looks up at me, and I look down at him. ‘This must be heaven,’ he says.No. It’s Iowa,’ I reply automatically. But then I...

She had fouled off of the curves that life had thrown at her.

I have to absorb the new season like sunlight, letting it turn my winter skin pink and then brown. I must stuff myself with lore and statistics until my fingers ooze balm.

I don’t have to tell you that the one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has been erased like a blackboard, only to be rebuilt and then erased again. But baseball has...

Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.

Any game becomes important when you know and love the players.