Thomas Boswell
Thomas Boswell
Thomas M. Boswellis an American sports columnist...
baseball hate hockey
Terrorism drives out all normal human activity before it, defining life in its own sick terms, if it can. So, a baseball game on a sultry Texas night before a huge crowd, with everyone feeling perfectly safe, is exactly what terrorists hate. Which is why it is so important to resume such athletic rituals - which symbolize stability, confidence and order - as soon as is reasonably possible.
team golf hockey
Some things cannont possibly happen, because they are both too improbable and too perfect. The U.S. hockey team cannot beat the Russians in the 1980 Olympics. Jack Nicklaus cannot shoot 65 to win the Masters at age forty-six. Nothing else comes immediately to mind.
sports baseball hockey
In and of itself, sports may be trivial, but as a symbol of the American way of life, it has enormous weight. We are seen, worldwide, as an enormously competitive, enthusiastic people who work as hard as we play and play as hard as we work. When baseball - which has traditionally canceled one day of games for huge national celebrations or disasters - stops play for six days, that has reverberations in the national consciousness.
almost begins opening time
Time begins on Opening Day . . . (when) we know that something fine, almost wonderful, is about to (happen).
date fling june rather tacky tour wish
The PGA Tour will wish it had an entrenched June date here rather than a tacky fling with FedEx in Memphis.
golf major tournament watching
A Major golf tournament is 40,000 sadists watching 144 masochists.
against beat europe mixed scramble
If you can't beat Europe and you can't beat the Best-of-the-Rest, what's left? A mixed scramble against Tibet?
baseball art narrative-voice
A narrative voice with conviction is often hard to find. But not in baseball. The minors teach two lost American arts: how to chew tobacco and how to tell a story.
fun nice golf
Of the big four, the PGA is the most fair and the least fun. Basically, it's just the US Open set up by nice, rather than nasty, fellows.
golf majors tournaments
A major golf tournament is 40,000 sadists watching 144 masochists.
golf knowing mind
As every golfer knows, no one ever lost his mind over one shot. It is rather the gradual process of shot after shot watching your score go to tatters - knowing that you have found a different way to bogey each hole.
baseball distance player
The best place to catch a baseball hit by (Mark) McGwire is definitely not within the confines of the playing field, or sometimes even the ballpark. Other players dial '1' for long distance. McGwire has to ask for an international operator.
baseball often-is everyday
Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.
jobs umpires fbi-agents
A good umpire, like a good FBI agent, is never noticed if he is doing his job.