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He bats like a lightning rod.
If you build it, he will come.
I don't believe in the afterlife.
Have never been a minor league fan.
I don't have time to read nonfiction.
Heroes don't need to talk about what they did.
Read, read, read, read and then read some more.
The Great Gatsby, the finest novel ever written.
Perhaps crossing the barriers of time has freed me.
My main income came from failed movie and TV options.
Any game becomes important when you know and love the players.
Curt Flood, of course, was in a class by himself, a true hero.
Until Color TV came along, BW TV was too muddy to be enjoyable.
Baseball games are like snowflakes and fingerprints, no two are ever alike.
[I had ] uneventful, though isolated childhood. Good, kind, stable parents.
Basketball is the worst sport. They need to raise the basket at least two feet.
I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
My dad talked a good game. [I'm as a] child got only the World Series on the radio.
Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.
Yogi Berra, Bill Lee, they were irreverent, poked fun at the stodgy owners and managers.
[I] Played a little softball, but there was nowhere on the field it was safe for me to be.
I'm a big fan of curling, follow all the major world events. Watch all four Tennis majors.
Someone once described the pitching of a no-hit game as like catching lighting in a bottle.
Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen.
If I have a choice between looking something up and making it up, I'll make it up every time.
Discovered W. Somerset Maugham in about 5th grade. Didn't understand the plots, but loved the descriptions.
I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game.
I lost my wife Barbara to cancer few years ago. I would give whatever time I have left to spend one more day with her.
At one time I'd been to every park except Baltimore and Houston, but can't even keep track of who plays where these days.
It is hard to compare the eras, but Joe Jackson and Ty Cobb from the past, Sandy Koufax and Roger Clements from the present.
The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.
I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.
The law is like rope...useful, necessary, strong, but it can be bent and twisted into all kinds of shapes depending on the occasion.
Syzygy, inexorable, pancreatic, phantasmagoria - anyone who can use those four words in one sentence will never have to do manual labor.
In the 70s and 80s, I made a good living. Have managed my funds carefully, will never have to go out and cadge quarters from the tourists.
I became exclusively an American League fan when they instituted the DH rule, and will remain so until the National League moves out of the dark ages.
My intuition told me that it was the grass that was important.Now it glows parrot-green, cool as mint, soft as moss, lying there like a cashmere blanket.
I was lucky to get one good adaptation. Field of Dreams the Musical is lurking in the wings. Hope it will provide my daughters with a ton of money someday.
1946, if my memory is correct. Harry "The Cat" Brecheen went against the Red Sox in Game 7. I stayed home to listen, practically had my head inside the radio.
Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.
Find something that thrills you, and when you finish reading it for enjoyment, read it again line by line, paragraph by paragraph to see what you liked about it.
Found a good voice and took advantage of it. Each of my specialties was like a prospector discovering a vein of gold. I worked each until the vein was exhausted.
America has been erased like a blackboard, only to be rebuilt and then erased again. But baseball has marked time while America has rolled by like a procession of steamrollers.
Baseball is meant to be a contemplative game. They play music to draw young people to the game. If young people can't come to the game without music, then they should stay home.
I am an old-fashioned storyteller. I try to make people laugh and cry. A fiction writer's duty is to entertain. If you can sneak in something profound or symbolic, so much the better.
I've played [Scrabble] tournaments for about 20 years. My daughter, Erin, who lives with me, also travels to tournaments. While I'm not a top division player, I've won a number of tournaments.
[Mid-list writers are now] less greed on the part of both publishers and chain booksellers. It is easier for them to publish and sell only blockbusters and leave the real work to small presses.
After the strike, I lost interest. In reality, neither players nor owners care in the least about the fans. The greed of both factions has destroyed baseball's credibility, at least for the present.
Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me. So I had to take the situation and invent stories to go with it.
Most writers are unhappy with film adaptations of their work, and rightly so. 'Field of Dreams,' however, caught the spirit and essence of 'Shoeless Joe' while making the necessary changes to make the work more visual.