Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. - John Leonard

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Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

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About John Leonard

John Leonard (February 25 1939 – November 5 2008) was an American literary, TV, film and cultural critic.

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