Roger Kahn Short Quotes

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The gracious mistress turned bitch in summer heat.

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

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To age with dignity and with courage cuts close to what it is to be a man.

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There is only so much space on the planet. Fathers perish to make room for sons.

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Defeat, particularly dramatic defeat, confirms our worst impression of ourselves.

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It was a fine thing to be a newspaperman and I very much wanted to be a good one.

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Surely these fine athletes, those boys of summer, have found their measure of ruin.

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Newspapers blew on dirty floors. Littering is an ancillary function of the free press.

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

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The immeasurable difference between producing cars and producing newspapers is pursuit of the horizon.

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One thing a writer has, if he is fortunate, and I have been fortunate, is a partnership with the years.

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

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The time seems simpler than today, but mostly because the past always seems simpler when its wars are done.

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In the intimacy of Ebbets Field it was a short trip from the grandstand to the fantasy you were in the game.

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What did it matter, Babe Ruth or Jersey Joe Stripp? If vector analysis was beyond me, I could still watch a ball game.

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Robinson did not merely play at center stage. He was center stage; and wherever he walked, center stage moved with him.

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It was a time of transition, which few recognized, and glutting national satisfaction. Students and scholars were silent.

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At carefree times in early boyhood I chose to believe that life was a kind of ball game, but with a mix of years and perception I learned better.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I wonder if anyone always knows-you, me, Jackie Robinson, even Robert Frost-that we will cross to Safety. Or is it rather that when we are There, we think we always knew?

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At a point of life when one is through with boyhood, but has not yet discovered how to be a man, it was my fortune to travel with the most marvelously appealing of teams.

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I never heard a thrown ball make that sound before. The ball seemed to accelerate as it came close; an accelerating, impossibly fast pitch that made the noises of hornets and snakes.

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Is that the minds last, soundless, dying cry? Who will remember? There is no rustling of old crowds as my long, wrenching, joyous voyage ended, only the question, "Who will remember?"

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