Roger Kahn: Baseball

Roger Kahn was American baseball writer. Explore interesting quotes on baseball.
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“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.”

Roger Kahn

Source: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 1, The Trolley Car That Ran By Ebbets Field, p. 10

Age , Memory

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

Roger Kahn

Source: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 1, The Trolley Car That Ran By Ebbets Field, p. 6

Men , Books , Travel

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

Roger Kahn

Source: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 1, The Trolley Car That Ran By Ebbets Field, p. 9

Game

“He bore the burden of a pioneer and the weight made him strong. If one can be certain of anything in baseball, it is that we shall not look upon his like again.”

Roger Kahn

Source: The Boys Of Summer, Lines On The Transpontine Madness, p. xix (See also: Jackie Robinson)

Strong

“One did not go to Ebbets Field for sociology. Exciting baseball was the attraction, and a wonder of the sociological Brookln Dodgers was the excitement of their play.”

Roger Kahn

Source: The Boys Of Summer, Lines On The Transpontine Madness, p. xvii