„The fundamental truth: a baseball game is nothing but a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the cadence of a summer day.“
Quelle: Summerland
Michael Chabon1
US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller 1963Ähnliche Zitate
— Roger Kahn American baseball writer 1927 - 2020
Quelle: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 1, The Trolley Car That Ran By Ebbets Field, p. 9
„Monday, n. In Christian countries, the day after the baseball game.“
— Ambrose Bierce, buch Des Teufels Wörterbuch
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
— Aldo Leopold American writer and scientist 1887 - 1948
radio talk http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/AldoLeopold/AldoLeopold-idx?type=turn&id=AldoLeopold.ALYale&entity=AldoLeopold.ALYale.p0535&isize=XL "Feed Early to Keep Game at Home", 2 November 1933.
1930s
— David Allen American productivity consultant and author 1945
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„Nothing is boring exept to people who aren't really paying attention.“
— Michael Chabon, buch Summerland
Quelle: Summerland
— Babe Ruth American baseball player 1895 - 1948
From "Babe Speaks His Mind Anent the Deliberate Pass," http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1920/08/14/page/7/ by Ruth (as told to Pegler), in The Chicago Tribune (August 14, 1920), p. 7; reprinted as "The Intentional Pass," https://books.google.com/books?id=SAAlxi-0EZYC&pg=PA32 in Playing the Game: My Early Years in Baseball, p. 32
„I said: "Baseball is the hurrah game of the republic!"“
— Walt Whitman American poet, essayist and journalist 1819 - 1892
He was hilarious: "That's beautiful: the hurrah game! well — it's our game: that's the chief fact in connection with it: America's game: has the snap, go fling, of the American atmosphere — belongs as much to our institutions, fits into them as significantly, as our constitutions, laws: is just as important in the sum total of our historic life."
Conversation with Whitman (4 July 1889) as quoted in With Walt Whitman in Camden (1906) by Horace Traubel, Vol. IV
„The only real game — I think — in the world is baseball.“
— Babe Ruth American baseball player 1895 - 1948
Farewell Address (1947)
— Buckminster Fuller American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist 1895 - 1983
1960s, Presentation to U.S. Congressional Sub-Committee on World Game (1969)
— Gustavo Gutiérrez Peruvian theologian 1928
Quelle: A Theology of Liberation - 15th Anniversary Edition, Chapter Nine, Liberation And Salvation, p. 91-92
— Frederick Buechner Poet, novelist, short story writer, theologian 1926
Whistling in the Dark: A Doubter's Dictionary (1988)
