I am currently planning my annual August “Baseball Trip” with son Brady and it naturally got me thinking things baseball.
Because the O’s are truly zero’s and the Nationals are frustratingly good and bad simultaneously, these are some really trying times for D.C./Baltimore area baseball fans. A part of me is feeling sort of lost and sad that my teams are so off line. The O’s have always been my summertime rock when life has sent some shots across my bow. (If I mixed some metaphors there, as Steve Martin used to say – well excuuuuuuse me!)
So instead of talking about the O’s and Nats, how’s bout we look at some quotes as to why baseball is still the greatest of all pastimes.
Since I mentioned Brady and our annual trip, here’s a father-son baseball quote courtesy of Donald Hall:
“Baseball is fathers and sons. Football is brothers beating each other up in the backyard, violent and superficial… Baseball is fathers and sons playing catch, lazy and murderous, wild and controlled, the profound archaic song of birth, growth, age, and death. This diamond enclosed what we are.”
John Passaro wrote a great article “In the Zone” all about baseball and father-son connections. It includes this quote that is often cited in several of the best baseball quotes’ lists:
Willy also does a good job here singing about baseball and fathers and sons.