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Pastimes
From Ken Burns’ famous 18.5 hour-long “Baseball” documentary series, sportswriter Thomas Boswell:
It’s one of the gentle forms of poetry that runs through our lives, and makes living more bearable.
You need moments that give you pleasure - your children or your hobbies or your games. Life can’t all be big issues and heart surgery. Something has to bring joy into the day.
I’ve always thought that the six months during the baseball season, there was something in the day that wasn’t there the other six months of winter. It was not that you had to listen to the game, but that you could if you needed it.
Doris Kearns Goodwin:
I think baseball is a game that allows people who watch it to think about nothing else. It allows us to feel connected to a place.
