Hold a baseball in your hand... Feel the ball, turn it over in your hand; hold it across the seam or the other way, with the seam just to the side of your middle finger. Speculation stirs. You want to get outdoors and throw this spare and sensual object to somebody or, at the very least, watch somebody else throw it. The game has begun.

The Roger Angell Baseball Collection: The Summer Game, Five Seasons, and Season Ticket (ed. Open Road Media, 2013) - ISBN: 9781480465619