A. Bartlett GiamattiThinkers

Baseball is a sport designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.

A Poem needs nervous tension, like an arrow needs a bowstring.

Sports is an interesting feature of society whereby it's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.