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"Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species."
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"You look at all the great players that they've had and the potential of playing in Yankee Stadium."
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"The hardest thing to believe about The Fan is not that Robert De Niro is stalking somebody again but that anyone cares that much about a baseball player."
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"It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress."
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"I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!"
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"Why are baseball managers the only coaches who dress up like the players?"
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"Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species."
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"Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture."
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"Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen."
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"Baseball is dull only to dull minds."
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"I wanted to be a professional baseball player."
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"Journalists do not like to report on uncertainties. They would almost rather be wrong than ambiguous."
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"Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough "facts" and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with something that, at least by the standards of short-order cooks, could be called the truth."
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"Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species."
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"Nothing is more idealistic than a journalist on the defensive."
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"To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions."
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"Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout."
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"It is one test of a fully developed writer that he reminds us of no one but himself."
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