Thomas Boswell Quote

Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.


How life imitates the World Series: an inquiry into the game (ed. Doubleday, 1982)


Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.

Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.

Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.

Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.