Quotes by Roger Kahn

“That morning began with wind and hairy clouds. It was late March and the day rose brisk and uncertain, with gusts suggesting January and flashes of sun promising June. In every way, a season of cha...”

“It was a time of transition, which few recognized, and glutting national satisfaction. Students and scholars were silent.”

“One can travel for weeks with baseball men and see no books at all.”

“No game is as verbal as baseball; baseball spreads twenty minutes of action across three hours of a day.”

“Baseball skill relates inversely to age. The older a man gets, the better a ball player he was when young, according to the watery eye of memory.”

“What did it matter, Babe Ruth or Jersey Joe Stripp? If vector analysis was beyond me, I could still watch a ball game.”

“In the dead sunlight of a forgotten spring the major leaguers were trim, graceful and effortless. They might have been gods for these seemed true Olympians to a boy who wanted to become a manand wh...”

“The world is never again as it was before anyone you love has ever died; never so innocent, never so fixed, never so gentle, never so pliant to your will. But these are afterthoughts. Generations v...”

“When the wind blew from the south and the French doors had been opened, the sound of cheering carried from Ebbets Field into the apartment. It was astonishing, to hear cheers from a major league cr...”

“At carefree times in early boyhood I chose to believe that life was a kind of ball game, but with a mix of years and perception I learned better.”

“I never heard a thrown ball make that sound before. The ball seemed to accelerate as it came close; an accelerating, impossibly fast pitch that made the noises of hornets and snakes.”

“Nouns and verbs carry writing.”

“The immeasurable difference between producing cars and producing newspapers is pursuit of the horizon.”

“I wonder if anyone always knows-you, me, Jackie Robinson, even Robert Frost-that we will cross to Safety. Or is it rather that when we are There, we think we always knew?”

“The gracious mistress turned bitch in summer heat.”

“Defeat, particularly dramatic defeat, confirms our worst impression of ourselves.”

“The time seems simpler than today, but mostly because the past always seems simpler when its wars are done.”

“Being and writing, the road asked nothing more.”

“It was a fine thing to be a newspaperman and I very much wanted to be a good one.”

“There is only so much space on the planet. Fathers perish to make room for sons.”