Roger Kahn: Baseball

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

Roger Kahn: 60 quotes0 likes

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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