Roger Kahn Quotes

I never heard a thrown ball make that sound before. The ball seemed to accelerate as it came close; an accelerating, impossibly fast pitch that made the noises of hornets and snakes.

Is that the minds last, soundless, dying cry? Who will remember? There is no rustling of old crowds as my long, wrenching, joyous voyage ended, only the question, "Who will remember?"

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

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.

Defeat, particularly dramatic defeat, confirms our worst impression of ourselves.

The immeasurable difference between producing cars and producing newspapers is pursuit of the horizon.

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

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.

At a point of life when one is through with boyhood, but has not yet discovered how to be a man, it was my fortune to travel with the most marvelously appealing of teams.

At carefree times in early boyhood I chose to believe that life was a kind of ball game, but with a mix of years and perception I learned better.

There is only so much space on the planet. Fathers perish to make room for sons.

The world is never again as it was before anyone you love has ever died; never so innocent, never so fixed, never so gentle, never so pliant to your will. But these are afterthoughts. Generations vie and the young recover swiftly, or believe they do.

One thing a writer has, if he is fortunate, and I have been fortunate, is a partnership with the years.

It was a fine thing to be a newspaperman and I very much wanted to be a good one.

In the intimacy of Ebbets Field it was a short trip from the grandstand to the fantasy you were in the game.