Roger Kahn - Baseball Quotes

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He bore the burden of a pioneer and the weight made him strong. If one can be certain of anything in baseball, it is that we shall not look upon his like again.

Roger Kahn

One did not go to Ebbets Field for sociology. Exciting baseball was the attraction, and a wonder of the sociological Brookln Dodgers was the excitement of their play.

Roger Kahn

One can travel for weeks with baseball men and see no books at all.

Roger Kahn

Baseball skill relates inversely to age. The older a man gets, the better a ball player he was when young, according to the watery eye of memory.

Roger Kahn

No game is as verbal as baseball; baseball spreads twenty minutes of action across three hours of a day.

Roger Kahn

Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker's responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.

Roger Kahn

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.

Roger Kahn