“(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action”

— John Irving , book A Prayer for Owen Meany

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany

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American novelist and screenwriter 1942

Roger Kahn (1927–2020) American baseball writer

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

“Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics. You "take in" a baseball game, something odd to say about a football or basketball game, with the clock running and the bodies flying.”

Charles Krauthammer (1950–2018) American journalist

2010s, 2010, The joys of losing (2010)

“I said: "Baseball is the hurrah game of the republic!"”

Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist

He was hilarious: "That's beautiful: the hurrah game! well — it's our game: that's the chief fact in connection with it: America's game: has the snap, go fling, of the American atmosphere — belongs as much to our institutions, fits into them as significantly, as our constitutions, laws: is just as important in the sum total of our historic life."
Conversation with Whitman (4 July 1889) as quoted in With Walt Whitman in Camden (1906) by Horace Traubel, Vol. IV

“The only real game — I think — in the world is baseball.”

Babe Ruth (1895–1948) American baseball player

Farewell Address (1947)

“Monday, n. In Christian countries, the day after the baseball game.”

Ambrose Bierce book The Devil's Dictionary

The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

“As we progress further into the 21st century, I anticipate that natural theology will be an increasingly relevant and vital preparation for people to receive the gospel.”

William Lane Craig (1949) American Christian apologist and evangelist

God Is Not Dead Yet: How current philosophers argue for his existence.

03 July 2008

Christianity Today

https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2008/july/13.22.html