Thomas Boswell
Thomas Boswell
Thomas M. Boswellis an American sports columnist...
baseball team law
An almost inexorable baseball law: A Red Sox ship with a single leak will always find a way to sink No team is worshipped with such a perverse sense of fatality.
baseball art hands
Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it's beginning to seem that way. We're reaching the point where you can be a truly dedicated, state-of-the-art fan or you can have a life. Take your pick.
team golf hockey
Some things cannont possibly happen, because they are both too improbable and too perfect. The U.S. hockey team cannot beat the Russians in the 1980 Olympics. Jack Nicklaus cannot shoot 65 to win the Masters at age forty-six. Nothing else comes immediately to mind.
senior baseball children
I think baseball is a great support to people who have emotional voids, gaps, emotional difficulties. That is to say: all of us. Those parts of us that don’t function well. Those parts of us that are sad or depressed—not every day. They can really use baseball. It isn't just the child in a wheelchair or the shut-in senior citizen listening to the radio that needs the game. There’s part of us, part of everybody who’s a baseball fan, who needs the game at that level.
football baseball spring
Baseball means Spring's Here. Football means Winter's Coming.
baseball smell special
Decades after a person has stopped collecting bubble gum cards, he can still discover himself collecting ballparks... their smells, their special seasons, their moods.
entrepreneur excellence substitutes
There is no substitute for excellence. Not even success.
sports baseball illusion
More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.
almost begins opening time
Time begins on Opening Day . . . (when) we know that something fine, almost wonderful, is about to (happen).
date fling june rather tacky tour wish
The PGA Tour will wish it had an entrenched June date here rather than a tacky fling with FedEx in Memphis.
golf major tournament watching
A Major golf tournament is 40,000 sadists watching 144 masochists.
against beat europe mixed scramble
If you can't beat Europe and you can't beat the Best-of-the-Rest, what's left? A mixed scramble against Tibet?